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Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine [Inscribed, with doodles]
KENNEDY, William and Brendan Kennedy; Glen Baxter (Illustrates)
Published by The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1986
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- First Edition
- Signed
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. First Printing. First Edition (so stated) of first children's book by the author of Ironweed, signed by both William Kennedy and the illustrator. Demy 8vo (229 x 214mm): 40pp, with frontispiece and sixteen full-page color plates. Publisher's fuchsia pictorial cloth-e…ffect boards, patterned end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced $10.95. Inscribed by William Kennedy on title page and by Glenn Baxter, with four captioned doodles, on half title. A handsome example (jacket's gently edge-worn), tightly bound and clean throughout. Blaney, p. 45. In this collaboration between the Pulitzer prize-winning author and his son, Charlie Malarkey wakes up to find his belly button is missing. Brendan Kennedy began this story with his father at the age of four; it was published during Brendan's junior year of high school. They two also wrote Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Signed.
