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THE LION AND THE MOUSE
by Pinkney, Jerry; Aesop
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in fine dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this lovely retelling of one of Aesop's best-known fables - winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal. Winner of five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Caldecott Honors, a Caldecott Medal (for THE LION AND THE MOUSE), and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Jerry Pinkney was a prolific author and illustrator of children's literature, and one of the preeminent artists in the field. "Jerry used his talent as one of America's great watercolorists to tell stories in pictures [...]with the goal of moving society to a better place," said William R. Valerio, director of Woodmere Art Museum, at time of Pinkney's death in 2021. 9.5'' x 11''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($16.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [36] pages. Signed by Pinkney to title page. Binding with a touch of bumping to corners and spine ends, a bit of toning to joints (likely a manufacturing error). Tight.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46608
- Title
- THE LION AND THE MOUSE
- Author
- Pinkney, Jerry; Aesop
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in fine dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 21st century,Post-WWII,African American author,US American,Caldecott,Picture Book
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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