I SAW ESAU: THE SCHOOLCHILD'S POCKET BOOK
by Iona Opie, Peter Opie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good-
- ISBN 10
- 1564020460
- ISBN 13
- 9781564020468
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is an unread First US Edition of I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book, written by the English folklore experts Iona and Peter Opie. It was originally published in 1947. In 1992, it was re-published, this time full of color illustrations by the great American illustrator Maurice Sendak, best known for Where the Wild Things Are, and his many cartoons for the New Yorker.
Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren—more than one 170 rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures—vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad—this book offers knowledge and entertainment to readers of all ages.
This copy's dust jacket, though unclipped, is a little battered. The book itself is perfect. The spine has not been cracked; there is no indication that anyone ever opened it.
Synopsis
Iona and Peter Opie were married in 1943 and worked together for nearly forty years, studying and writing about children’s lore and literature until Peter’s death in 1982. Among their collaborations is The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes . Iona Opie lives in England. Maurice Sendak has created texts and illustrations for more than seventy books, which have sold millions of copies around the world. He has won numerous awards, including a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are , and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his body of work. He lives in New England.
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- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1633
- Title
- I SAW ESAU: THE SCHOOLCHILD'S POCKET BOOK
- Author
- Iona Opie, Peter Opie
- Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak
- Format/Binding
- Perfect - unread
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1564020460
- ISBN 13
- 9781564020468
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 160
- Keywords
- Rhymes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; British History; World History; British Fiction; Children & Youth; Companions & Reference;
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