New York: Harper & Row, (1972).
Price: $400.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by James Stevenson. Quarto. 32pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with a chip on the front panel, light edgewear and some general toning, mostly to the spine. Laid in is a small card Signed by Arkin: "With love from Alan." This is a Publisher's File Copy with stamps on the front and rear endpapers ("Juvenile Department Library Copy Do Not Remove"). From the library of Charlotte Zolotow, acclaimed editor and publisher at Harper’s celebrated children’s books department, who was a close friend of actor Alan Arkin and his wife, Barbara Dana, who was also a children's book author. Zolotow also authored of over 65 children’s books and is credited for her contributions to the Children’s Liberation Movement which believed the rights and emotional concerns of children be recognized and treated as the equal of adults. A nice association.
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