Allen Chaffee Adaptation (2 results)

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover and small tears and fraying at corners. 8 1/8"w x 11 1/4"h. Allen Chaffee's adaptation of Collodi's 1883 Italian novel about the wooden puppet who must learn honesty to become a real boy, illustrated in color and black-and-white with illustrated endpapers by Lois Lenski. Keywords: Geppetto Workshop, Land of Toys, Talking Cricket, Blue Fairy, Fox and Cat, Picaresque Story, Lois Lenski Art, Illustrated Endpapers, Monstrous Dogfish, Nose Grows Longer, Italian Classic, Folk Art Illustration 2. Lenski, Lois (illustrator). …

Hard Cover/Stitched. Condition: Collectible - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. Firs Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated boards/NF w/trace rubs to edges & surfaces (primarily to back). k cover. Stitched binding; one folio slightly loose with two missed stitches (publisher's flaw). First published in Italian, 1883. Classic Italian tale of how a naughty and selfish wooden puppet learns kindness and compassion and becomes a human child and a worthy son to his creator, the kindly, old and childless Geppetto. Spiritual guidance is provided through the hundred-year-old Talking Cricket, delegated by the Fairy with Blue Hair to take Pinocchio in hand. Fine copy of a pre-Disney delight. Lois Lenski (Illustrator) (illustrator).…