Petrouchka
by Cleaver, Elizabeth (INSCRIBED)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine -/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 077051877X
- ISBN 13
- 9780770518776
- Seller
-
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine -/Very Good. Elizabeth Cleaver. Adapted from Igor Stravinsky & Alexander Benois by the Montreal (1939 - 1985), multi-award winning children's author / illustrator. The Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award is named in her honor. Cleaver was a prized runner-up for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1972. Red, oblong 8vo (8 5/8" x 11") boards with black lettering on spine & black illustration on front cover. Unpaginated (32 pages with colour collage art). Slight rubbing at corners & spine ends. Inscribed by illustrator to former owner on inside page with the owner's bookplate on inside cover. Minor edge wear to dust jacket with a 1/8" tear to bottom edge. Round author sticker on front cover
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Park Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005716
- Title
- Petrouchka
- Author
- Cleaver, Elizabeth (INSCRIBED)
- Illustrator
- Elizabeth Cleaver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 077051877X
- ISBN 13
- 9780770518776
- Publisher
- Macmillan of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1980
- X weight
- 0 kg
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About the Seller
High Park Books
Biblio member since 2007
Kitchener, Ontario
About High Park Books
We are a small independent bookseller specializing in non-fiction, music, art, poetry, Canadian local history, Mennonite history, Canadian literature, children's literature and books on native issues.
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Inscribed
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