Uncle Snake.
by Gollub, Matthew; illustrated by Leovigildo Martinez
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the publisher's price on the jacket flap i
- ISBN 10
- 0688139442
- ISBN 13
- 9780688139445
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Tambourine Books, 1996.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. oblong format: about 8.75 inches tall by 11.25 inches wide . Light purple endpapers. Description: This copy is Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription: ''Para (name) que tu lectura sea eléctrica''. Dramatic color paintings by Leovigildo Martinez illustrate this story based on an ancient belief in Oazaca, Mexico about a snake in the sky that brings heavy rains. In Oaxaca, where electrical storms are common, the ancients regarded lightning as a form of life-giving energy, and today when lightning storms rage, snakes are said to be 'crossing the sky'.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064242
- Title
- Uncle Snake.
- Author
- Gollub, Matthew; illustrated by Leovigildo Martinez
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the publisher's price on the jacket flap i
- Edition
- 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688139442
- ISBN 13
- 9780688139445
- Publisher
- Tambourine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1996.
- Pages
- about 30 pages (unpaginated).
- Size
- oblong format: about 8.75 inches tall by 11.25 inches wide
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Oroville, California
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