Ride a Purple Pelican
by PRELUTSKY, JACK; GARTH WILLIAMS, Illustrator
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Harcover. First Edition, First Printing. Fully illustrated in color. Tiny, faint tape marks to endpapers, otherwise fine in orig/Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Prelutsky on half title page. Fully illustrated in color. Tiny, faint tape marks to endpapers, otherwise fine in original pictorial paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Thin quarto. 9 x 11.25 in. 64 pp. A lovely copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 885
- Title
- Ride a Purple Pelican
- Author
- PRELUTSKY, JACK; GARTH WILLIAMS, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Harcover. First Edition, First Printing. Fully illustrated in color. Tiny, faint tape marks to endpapers, otherwise fine in orig
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Greenwillow Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Grinning Cat Books
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Potomac, Maryland
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- Fine
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- Quarto
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...