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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE
by Johnson, Crockett
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of the second book in the Harold series of mid-century minimalist meta-picture books. This follow-up to HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON presents something of a modernist rewrite of ALICE IN WONDERLAND's size transformations, in which Harold shrinks himself using not a drink concoction, but his purple crayon. Besides becoming immediate bestsellers, the minimalist Harold books - simultaneously simple and profound - have become an influential favorite of many other artists and authors: in his 1982 acceptance speech for the Caldecott Award for JUMANJI, Chris Van Allsburg explicitly thanks "Harold, for his purple crayon"; Maurice Sendak praised the "supreme inventiveness" of Harold; Rita Dove names Harold in her poem "Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967." A lovely copy. 5.75'' x 4.5''. Original quarter black cloth, pink and purple paper boards with brown lettering. In original unclipped ($1.50) pink, purple, and brown pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Johnson in black and purple on every page. [64] pages. Housed in custom purple cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered goatskin spine label. Lower corner of jacket clipped. Just a touch of rubbing to book extremities; jacket similarly with only shallow rubbing to spine ends and very light shelfsoil.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39424
- Title
- HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE
- Author
- Johnson, Crockett
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Fairy Tales,Fairies,Fantasy,Picture Book
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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