Graves The Big Green Book

Graves, Robert Illustrated by Maurice Sendak: THE BIG GREEN BOOK A Modern Masters Book for Children, 1962 New York Crowell-Collier Pr.

Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket Edition: 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing B&W Illustrations; Variant binding with black lettering to spine of book. Spine ends & corners of book covers have some bumping, rubbing & edge wear. Green paper covered boards have white and black lettering to front cover and black lettering to spine of book. Front cover of book has four or five spots of brownish discoloration which actually looks like spots of chocolate along with several spots of rubbing and some lightish scratching. Spine ends and corners of book cover have rubbing, edge wear and beginning tearing. There is noticeable rubbing to both front and rear spine joints. Rear cover of book has noticeable scratching. Text pages generally clean & bright -- except for page #7 where an enterprising youth has added several bits of blue ink shading to Maurice Sendak's wonderful illustrations. (Luckily, this artist gave up his embellishments after this page -- there are no other pages so marked). Endpapers are a solid lightish green color. "Long ago a little boy called Jack lived with his uncle and his aunt and a big dog (who used to chase rabbits) in a house among the fields. Jack's father and mother were dead, and the uncle and aunt were not very nice to him. What Jack didn't at all like was when the uncle and aunt took him for nice long walks in the fields instead of letting him go out alone with the dog." This book is part of the Modern Masters Book for Children series. Hanrahan A50.

[SW: Youth Fiction Illustrated Robert Graves Maurice Sendak A Modern Masters Book for CHildren Imagination Humor Dogs Picture Books]

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Graves, Robert: The Big Green Book, NYC Crowell-Collier Publishing Company 1968
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1968 Edition. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak. The story of Jack, a little boy who one day discovers a big green book in the attic and starts to read.... Green covers with black illustration. Price-clipped dust jacket is rubbed, edgeworn. First Printing Very Good- Hard Cover

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Graves, Robert, Illustrated by Sendak, Maurice: THE BIG GREEN BOOK, The Crowell-Collier Press, 1962

Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 1st Edition. Narrow 4to - 11" to 13" Tall. 63 pp, green boards w/black lettering w/illustrated front cover and text on the back cover. A modern Masters Book for children. The book is a glimpse into childhood fantasy. It is the sotry of a mischievous little boy who finds a book of magic is a slightly mad fairy tale - a wild and fanciful work of nonsense suggesting Grimm rewritten by Edward Lear. Book contains a total vocabulary of 338 words. This is Robert Graves first book for the beginning reader. some rubbed on the edges, corners have some wear. Hanrahan A50 this edition is a variant of the first edition, as it has printing on the spine.

[SW: JUVENILE LITERATURE CHILDREN'S FANTASY MAGIC NONSENSE SENDAK, MAURICE FICTION]

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Graves Sendak: The Big Green Book, New York Crowell Collier Press 1968 ISBN: B0006BT982

EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR WITH PRICE CLIPPED. GREEN HARDCOVER COVER WITH LIGHT STAINING. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. Very Good Very Good; First Printing

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