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THE MAGIC RUG
by d'Aulaire, Ingri; d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc, 1931. Very good plus.. Inscribed first edition, first printing of the d'Aulaires' first work together. Young John is whisked away to North Africa on an enchanted flying rug, which draws him into a magical adventure. The d'Aulaires spent a winter in Africa researching this work, producing over 2,000 study sketches and paintings. While the villain falls into cultural caricature, the story overall is a beautiful and fantastical adventure with a young Bedouin girl guiding the journey. 8'' x 10.5''. Original cloth backed color pictorial boards. Lacks dust jacket, but with clippings from dust jacket flaps laid in. Color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrated title page, with numerous color and black-and-red illustrations throughout. [64] pages. Inscribed in ink by the d'Aulaires on copyright page. Some light rubbing to edges, corners and spine lightly bumped, very light spotting to dedication page. A lovely copy of a scarce work.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39013
- Title
- THE MAGIC RUG
- Author
- d'Aulaire, Ingri; d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- 20th century,Picture Book,Fantasy,Africa
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- Rubbing
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- Title Page
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- Copyright page
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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