Magic Moth by Lee Virginia (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Clean text - NO writing, NO highlighting to text. Light bow to front cover at fore-edge. Very good- reading copy.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near fine in a very good (some light wear on the front panel and spine), price clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 1973. First Edition. 64 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. A direct, honest, unsentimental story about death and its aftermath. Cream boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Edges very slightly rubbed. Dustwrapper edge-rubbed and grubby, closed tear to rear edge with tape repair on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Cuffari, Richard (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 64, b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Some light occasional foxing. Drawings by Richard Cuffari. A sensitive and unsentimental children's novel exploring the experience of bereavement through the eyes of a young boy whose sister is dying. Virginia Lee's thoughtful treatment of grief and family life became an early and influential contribution to children's literature on death. The magic moth of the title is a symbolic image. During the story, the transformation of a caterpillar into a moth provides a gentle metaphor for change and the continuation of life, helping the family explain death. [9780582164727].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lee, Virginia. The magic moth / drawings by Richard Cuffari. First edition. London: Longman Young Books, 1973. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket , the colour faded, with a few small marks on the back and light damage to the head of the spine neatly repaired from the inside with brown paper tape. Cream cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Yellow endpapers. 64pp., b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. "While ten-year-old Maryanne was sick, nearly every day six-year-old Mark-O brought her presents like a pretty rock from the driveway, a bead he found, or a caterpillar that makes its cocoon in a jar. Marianne made up stories about all those treasures. Then she became too tired to make up more stories. Finally, Mark-O asked his father when Maryanne would get better, and Father told him the difficult truth. Maryanne would never get well". A direct, honest, unsentimental story about death and its aftermath. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…