From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 1998
About this Item
Early printing. With full page color illustrations by Lobel throughout. Thin 4to, publisher s original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the pictorial dustjacket. 40. A very good and attractive copy, bright and clean, minor wear and aging to the jacket and a bit of very light mellowing to the board edges. A CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AND CHARMINGLY TOLD BY THE AUTHOR. "A pig flying through marshmallow clouds to a marzipan moon? A camel pirouetting through the desert? A wolf who looks suspiciously like an apple tree - or is it the other way around? A bear in a frying-pan hat and paper-bag boots? "Where can a reader -child or adult - find such marvelous things but in a fable? Arnold Lobel, creator of Frog and Toad, has given us his own funny and true fables. Each with a fresh and unexpected moral. Each accompanied by an illustration of glowing color and rich detail."-Publisher. Seller Inventory # 22384
Bibliographic Details
Title: FABLES
Publisher: New York Harper and Row 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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