Descrizione

Early printing. With full page color illustrations by Lobel throughout. Thin 4to, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the pictorial dustjacket. 40. A very good and attractive copy, bright and clean, minor wear and aging to the jacket and a bit of very light mellowing to the board edges.

Edizione: a caldecott medal winner, beautifully illustrated and charmingly told by the author. <br> “a pig flying through marshmallow clouds to a marzipan moon? a camel pirouetting through the desert? a wolf who looks suspiciously like an apple tree - or is it the other way around? a bear in a frying-pan hat and paper-bag boots?<br> “where can a reader -child or adult - find such marvelous things but in a fable? arnold lobel, creator of frog and toad, has given us his own funny and true fables. each with a fresh and unexpected moral. each accompanied by an illustration of glowing color and rich detail.”-publisher.