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Aunt Louisa's Good Old Stories. Comprising Mother Hubbard's Dog. Cock Robin. Three Bears. Tom Thumb -

Aunt Louisa's Good Old Stories. Comprising Mother Hubbard's Dog. Cock Robin. Three Bears. Tom Thumb -

Aunt Louisa's Good Old Stories. Comprising Mother Hubbard's Dog. Cock Robin. Three Bears. Tom Thumb

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New York (c 1872 - 1873 - 1874): Mcloughlin Brothers, 1872. First Or Early Edition . Embossed Leatherette. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 10 3/4" Tall x 9 1/4. Twenty-Four Pages Of Color Lithographs, And B/W Illustrations On Text Pagges. . Original Nineteenth Century Edition, Undated. Brown Pebbled Cloth, 10 3/4" X 9 1/2", Front Cover With Gilt Lettering, Stamped In Black, Large Circular Color Paste-On Illustration, Rear Cover Stamped Similarly In Blind, Pink Endpapers. 24 Color Lithographic Prints, Text Pages With Fine B/W Illustrations, All Pages And Chromolithographs Printed On One Side Only. Covers Worn, Frayed Art Corners, Gilt Bright And Complete, Design Strong, Paste-On Illustration With Just A Trace Of Wear At Edges. Hinges Solid Previous Owner's Name On Front Endpaper. Scarce; Three Institutional Holdings Shown In Worldcat.

  • Bookseller Arroyo Seco Books US (US)
  • Illustrator Twenty-Four Pages Of Color Lithographs, And B/W Illustrations On Text Pagges.
  • Format/Binding Embossed Leatherette
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
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  • Edition First Or Early Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Mcloughlin Brothers
  • Place of Publication New York (c 1872 - 1873 - 1874)
  • Date Published 1872
  • Keywords General
  • Size 10 3/4" Tall x 9 1/4
Old Men And Children (With Mounted Photograph Of Author).

Old Men And Children (With Mounted Photograph Of Author).

by Field, Dorothy (Mrs. Norman Dudley Short]; Colored Drawings By Honor C Appleton (1879 - 1951)

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London [1919]: James Hewetson & Son, 1919. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good. 57 Pp. Top Edge Gilt; Deckled Edges. Printed By Bales And Wilde, Chesterfield. Includes "Sally And The Organ-Boy", A Short Story First Published In "Little Folks". Nicely Inscribed (To "Kathleen") By The Author, And Dated Easter 1919. With A 4 1/4" X 3 1/8" Photograph Of The Author Reclining Beneath A Tree; This Is The Only Known Photograph Of The Author; The Photograph Is Neatly Mounted On The Front Pastedown. A Clean Copy, Spine Aged/Tanned, Two 1" Square Areas Of Tan Discoloration On Front Cover Near Spine. Small Area Of Fraying At Two Upper Tips, Also Fraying Along Top And Bottom Of Spine. Scarce.
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A West Point Treasure, or, Mark Malloy's Strange Find [The Medal Library #222]

A West Point Treasure, or, Mark Malloy's Strange Find [The Medal Library #222]

by Garrison, Lieut. Frederick [pseudonym of Upton Sinclair]

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New York: Street & Smith, 1903. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 7 " Tall. Illustrated Cover. 285 Pp. Illustrated Wrappers With Five Cadets Discovering A Treasure Chest By Lamplight. Early Or First Printing, This Title #222, List At Front Shows Titles Through #224. There Is Also A Hardcover Issue, Date Of Publication Unknown, Also Copyright 1903. Covers Worn With Chips At Edges, Spine Covered With Clear Tape, Chipping At Edges Of Spine, No Names Or Marks. Worldcat Shows Only One Institutional Holding Of This Street & Smith Title, And That Is Only On Microfilm. All Of The Pseudonymous Upton Sinclair Children's Books Published By Street And Smith Are Scarce Because Of Their Fragility, This One, The Fifth And Last, Particularly So.
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A Child's Garden Of Verses (First Edition, First Printing)

A Child's Garden Of Verses (First Edition, First Printing)

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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London: Longman's Green & Co, 1885. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book. 6 1/2" Tall. 101 Pp., With Two Preliminary Blanks, Adverts. Page, Half-Title, Three Final Blanks. Attractively Bound In Well Preserved 3/4 Dark Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title And Author, Over Beautifully Marbled Paper Boards, Matching Hand Marbled Endpapers. Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. First Printing, First Issue, One Of 1000 Copies, With No Mention Of "Two Series" In List Of Books By Stevenson. No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Other Damage, Pages Clean And Just A Little Aged [With One Very Small Foxing Spot]. Gift Quality. Ex Collection Of Dorothy Gish But Not Marked As Such.
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The New-England Primer, To Which is Added, The Shorter Catechism. (AKA New England Primer)

The New-England Primer, To Which is Added, The Shorter Catechism. (AKA New England Primer)

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Pittsburgh / Louvain: Luke Loomis, 1828. Early Edition . Marbled Paper Wrappers. Good. 7 Woodcuts + Page of 7 Woodcuts at End. 1828, Published By Luke Loomis, One Of A Very Large Number Of Printings From Various Early Nineteenth Century Printers; Worldcat Shows No Institutional Holding Of This 1828 Printing, But Does Show 10 Holdings Of A Similar But Longer Title, Undated, From This Printer/Publisher. Bound In Marbled Paper Over Flexible Card, Nineteenth Century; Book Begins With Title Page And Tiny Stub Of Preceding Page Or Cover. Text With 7 Woodcuts: One On Page Facing Title Page, With Text Beginning "See The Good And Dutiful Dog"; Five Alphabet Woodcut Pages, William Rogers Burning At The Stake; Seven Small Woodcuts On Last Page. A Well-Used Example, Worn, Browned, Foxed, Traces Of Water Staining. Nineteenth Century Ownership Signature Of "John D. Tyson, Baltimore, Md., '47".
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Albanian Wonder Tales (First Printing In Dust Jacket)

Albanian Wonder Tales (First Printing In Dust Jacket)

by Wheeler, Post; Color Frontispiece And B/W Drawings In Text By Maud And Miska Petersham

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New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + DJ. Xx, 282 Pp. Blue Cloth With Black Lettering, Illustrated Endpapers, Name Of Doubleday Doran At Base Of Spine Of Book And Dj, Doubleday Doran On Title Page, "Jr." Logo On Copyright Page With Copyright Date 1936 And "First Edition" Statement, Price $2.00 At Top Of Front Flap And Code 1169-36 At Bottom Of Front Flap Of Dj. Book Is Near Fine, Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks. Dj With Color Illustration On Front Panel (Same As The Frontispiece), Light Wear, 1/4" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Panel, 1/8" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Both With Associated Shallow Creasing Extending From The Tears.
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Old Men And Children (With Mounted Photograph Of Author).

Old Men And Children (With Mounted Photograph Of Author).

by Field, Dorothy (Mrs. Norman Dudley Short]; Colored Drawings By Honor C Appleton (1879 - 1951)

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London [1919]: James Hewetson & Son, 1919. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good. 57 Pp. Top Edge Gilt; Deckled Edges. Printed By Bales And Wilde, Chesterfield. Includes "Sally And The Organ-Boy", A Short Story First Published In "Little Folks". Nicely Inscribed (To "Kathleen") By The Author, And Dated Easter 1919. With A 4 1/4" X 3 1/8" Photograph Of The Author Reclining Beneath A Tree; This Is The Only Known Photograph Of The Author; The Photograph Is Neatly Mounted On The Front Pastedown. A Clean Copy, Spine Aged/Tanned, Two 1" Square Areas Of Tan Discoloration On Front Cover Near Spine. Small Area Of Fraying At Two Upper Tips, Also Fraying Along Top And Bottom Of Spine. Scarce.
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A West Point Treasure, or, Mark Malloy's Strange Find [The Medal Library #222]

A West Point Treasure, or, Mark Malloy's Strange Find [The Medal Library #222]

by Garrison, Lieut. Frederick [pseudonym of Upton Sinclair]

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New York: Street & Smith, 1903. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair. 7 " Tall. Illustrated Cover. 285 Pp. Illustrated Wrappers With Five Cadets Discovering A Treasure Chest By Lamplight. Early Or First Printing, This Title #222, List At Front Shows Titles Through #224. There Is Also A Hardcover Issue, Date Of Publication Unknown, Also Copyright 1903. Covers Worn With Chips At Edges, Spine Covered With Clear Tape, Chipping At Edges Of Spine, No Names Or Marks. Worldcat Shows Only One Institutional Holding Of This Street & Smith Title, And That Is Only On Microfilm. All Of The Pseudonymous Upton Sinclair Children's Books Published By Street And Smith Are Scarce Because Of Their Fragility, This One, The Fifth And Last, Particularly So.
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A Child's Garden Of Verses (First Edition, First Printing)

A Child's Garden Of Verses (First Edition, First Printing)

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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London: Longman's Green & Co, 1885. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book. 6 1/2" Tall. 101 Pp., With Two Preliminary Blanks, Adverts. Page, Half-Title, Three Final Blanks. Attractively Bound In Well Preserved 3/4 Dark Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Title And Author, Over Beautifully Marbled Paper Boards, Matching Hand Marbled Endpapers. Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. First Printing, First Issue, One Of 1000 Copies, With No Mention Of "Two Series" In List Of Books By Stevenson. No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Other Damage, Pages Clean And Just A Little Aged [With One Very Small Foxing Spot]. Gift Quality. Ex Collection Of Dorothy Gish But Not Marked As Such.
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The New-England Primer, To Which is Added, The Shorter Catechism. (AKA New England Primer)

The New-England Primer, To Which is Added, The Shorter Catechism. (AKA New England Primer)

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Pittsburgh / Louvain: Luke Loomis, 1828. Early Edition . Marbled Paper Wrappers. Good. 7 Woodcuts + Page of 7 Woodcuts at End. 1828, Published By Luke Loomis, One Of A Very Large Number Of Printings From Various Early Nineteenth Century Printers; Worldcat Shows No Institutional Holding Of This 1828 Printing, But Does Show 10 Holdings Of A Similar But Longer Title, Undated, From This Printer/Publisher. Bound In Marbled Paper Over Flexible Card, Nineteenth Century; Book Begins With Title Page And Tiny Stub Of Preceding Page Or Cover. Text With 7 Woodcuts: One On Page Facing Title Page, With Text Beginning "See The Good And Dutiful Dog"; Five Alphabet Woodcut Pages, William Rogers Burning At The Stake; Seven Small Woodcuts On Last Page. A Well-Used Example, Worn, Browned, Foxed, Traces Of Water Staining. Nineteenth Century Ownership Signature Of "John D. Tyson, Baltimore, Md., '47".
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Albanian Wonder Tales (First Printing In Dust Jacket)

Albanian Wonder Tales (First Printing In Dust Jacket)

by Wheeler, Post; Color Frontispiece And B/W Drawings In Text By Maud And Miska Petersham

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New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + DJ. Xx, 282 Pp. Blue Cloth With Black Lettering, Illustrated Endpapers, Name Of Doubleday Doran At Base Of Spine Of Book And Dj, Doubleday Doran On Title Page, "Jr." Logo On Copyright Page With Copyright Date 1936 And "First Edition" Statement, Price $2.00 At Top Of Front Flap And Code 1169-36 At Bottom Of Front Flap Of Dj. Book Is Near Fine, Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks. Dj With Color Illustration On Front Panel (Same As The Frontispiece), Light Wear, 1/4" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Panel, 1/8" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Both With Associated Shallow Creasing Extending From The Tears.
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A "Jamboree" of Laughter. From a Boy Scout's Diary.
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A "Jamboree" of Laughter. From a Boy Scout's Diary.

by W Heath Robinson

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London: A V N Jones & Co., 1910. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Not dated, circa 1910. Unpaginated. Very scarce copy. Brown paper covers which are rubbed, stained with moderate wear and chipping to extremities. Rear cover has advert for BLACKBIRD FOUNTAIN PEN. Has red circular sticker to front cover for Prince of Wales Imperial Fund. Raffles Bookstore Norfolk All orders normally dispatched within one working day. We will gladly supply further images or more information if required. Discounts available for multiple orders
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America's Stamps

America's Stamps

by Petersham, Maud and Miska

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Good
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First Edition
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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New York: Macmillan, 1947 (1947). Pictorial blue cloth boards in a color pictorial dust jacket which is chipped and worn. A history of American stamps with full page color illustrations and other textual illustrations by the Petershams as well as images of American stamps throughout. . First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Maud and Miska Petersham. 4to.
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American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to The Beast Within

American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to The Beast Within

by Bader, Barbara

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First Printing
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New York: Macmillan (1976). Brown cloth in dust jacket with small edge nick. A fresh clean copy of one of the most oft cited reference works dedicated to American picturebooks.. First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Thick 4to.
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Fairy Tale Sampler
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Fairy Tale Sampler

by Fairy Tales. Muir, Kirby (Arranged by); Lamont, Violet (Illus)

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Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1947 (1947). Illustrated boards with light shelf wear, small abrasion on endpaper, in matching dust jacket with minor wear, child's sticker over jacket price. A selection of familiar fairy tales, arranged for bedtime reading and illustrated in b&w and full color by Violet LaMont. Scarce.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Violet LaMont. 4to.
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Tom Mouse
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Tom Mouse

by Le Guin, Ursula K

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Fine
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First Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780761315995 / 0761315993
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VALATIE, New York, United States
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Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. AUTHOR SIGNED. 2002 Stated First Edition and with full printing number line. FINE in FINE price-intact dust jacket. Le Guin signed her name in violet ink on the title page, just below little Tom Mouse's nose. Signed on April 22, 2008 at Powell's Portland, Oregon bookstore. (Included with this book is a copy of Powell's April 2008 issue of the newsletter "Ink" with Ms. LeGuin's event listed.) A fresh, otherwise unmarked, tightly bound copy. Pages, yellow endpapers and hardcover (color pictorial paper with gloss lamination) are pristine. Binding and hinges tight and straight. Unclipped jacket, graphics matching the cover, is bright and clean; faint shelf rub along jacket spine where it wraps over the hinges but still fine, no tears, chips or creases. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. The tale of a little mouse with a yen to travel. Charming color illustrations throughout by Julie Downing. 8 x 10-1/4". 40 pages. Signed by… Read More
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Betty Fairy Book

Betty Fairy Book

by Price, Margaret Evans (Illus); Flint, Helen (Auth)

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No Jacket
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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Rochester: Stecher Litho Co., 1915 Color illustrated stiff paper wraps, some chipping to spine and light surface wear, insect damage at the top of book, but a clean and bright copy. Verses illustrated in duotone or full color in a charming fashion by Margaret Evans Price.. Very Good/No Jacket. Narrow Folio.
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Chicky-Chick-Chick

Chicky-Chick-Chick

by Swan, Kay; Illustrated By Alice Dennis

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Used - Very Good
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Good
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First Edition
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Hardcover
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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New York: Stoll Edwards, 1929 Illustrated boards with die-cut bars of a chicken coop, slight rubbing at extremities; matching dust jacket also with die-cut section, a few tape mends and middle bar of chicken coop is missing from DJ, but the dust jacket is very scarce. A wonderfully produced book with bright color illustrations and decorative borders in black and yellow. . First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Alice Dennis. 4to.
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Wonder-Land Stories
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Wonder-Land Stories

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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good -. Approx. [72] p.: many full-page chromolithographed illustrations and in-text line drawings; 24 cm. Red cloth spine with chromolithographed paper over boards. Front cover illustration is of Aladdin; back cover is grey. Cover title and imprint dated 1897. First page has title "Wonderland Stories" with undated imprint. Former owner's artistic inscription on front fixed endpaper: Howard G.B. Page 1897. Contents: Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp -- Robinson Crusoe -- Rip Van Winkle -- The Story of Robin Hood -- Ali Baba or the Forty Thieves -- Jack the Giant Killer. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; minor loss of paper at head of front joint; lower corner of front cover bent; cover is lightly soiled; light finger soiling along some fore-edges; otherwise, page are clean and tight, illustrations are bright.
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Ginger's Star and Jetty
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Ginger's Star and Jetty

by Elkins, JOhn C

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New
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Paperback
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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beautiful, signed, rare series
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Fables

Fables

by Lobel, Arnold

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Used - Fine
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Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780060239732 / 0060239735
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New York: Harper & Row, 1980 Blue cloth in color pictorial dust jacket with slight wear at extremities, price clipped. 20 original fables illustrated with colorful and handsome artwork by Lobel. Awarded the 1981 Caldecott Medal. . First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Arnold Lobel. 4to.
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