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Later printing with 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 to number line. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight, minor bumping to bottom rear edge else boards straight and clean; text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket ($15.99) has minor bumping to bottom spine with short closed tear to bottom rear flap fold end. Color bright and sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Several illustrations. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 102815BR4
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Halloween Tree
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Joseph Mugnaini
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
... one hundred million tons of night all crammed in that huge dark pit, that dank cellar, that deliciously frightening ravine.Awaiting them is the comic-sinister trickster Moundshroud, who whirls the boys on a tour through time that shows them the roots of Halloween--cavemen trembling from the dark, Egyptians whose lives revolved around death, Druids appeasing their terrible gods, and so on to the grim carnival of Mexico's Day of the Dead. It's full of poetic flashes, as when "all the old beasts, all the old tales, all the old nightmares, all the unused demons-put- by" are summoned from every corner of Europe to become gargoyles in the newly-built Notre Dame Cathedral.
Bradbury's theme of celebrating life by celebrating death is underlined by fleeting appearances of the gang's missing ninth boy, the one we soon realise is gravely ill and may not last the night. But Moundshroud, who is more than he seems, offers a deal ... The Halloween Tree is written as though for children, with lashings of exclamation marks--but, just as in a fairground, adults too can let their hair down and enjoy the wild roller- coaster ride. --David Langford
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