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PUMPKIN MOONSHINE
by Tudor, Tasha
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the first CALICO BOOK, and Tudor's first book. Beautifully illustrated in sharp colors, each page of hand-lettered text faces a full page color illustration by Tudor. Tudor wrote the book for her niece Sylvie Ann. Scarce in the dust jacket, this is a great copy. 4.75'' x 4''. Original blue polka-dot patterned cloth. In original dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Tudor. Book cloth clean and bright with only tiny places of wear, bit of offsetting in gutters of endpapers, to small spots to fore-edge. Jacket a couple tape repair slivers to verso, very light wear on corners, faint toning to spine.
Synopsis
Pumpkin Moonshine is the first published work by celebrated children's author and illustrator, Tasha Tudor. The book was written originally for her niece, Sylvie Ann, and tells the tale of a young girl and a runaway pumpkin who was later turned into a jack-o-lantern, otherwise known as a moonshine. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39066
- Title
- PUMPKIN MOONSHINE
- Author
- Tudor, Tasha
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- 20th century,American
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- A.N.
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- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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