Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures.
by Sendak, Maurice
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1871061067
- ISBN 13
- 9781871061062
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Reinhardt Books / Viking / Penguin Books, 1989. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (light foxing, few tiny chips), faint foxing edges. 214 pp. Essays about children's literature (picture books) by Maurice Sendak, the author of the famous picture book 'Where the Wild Things Are'. Topics range from George Macdonald, Beatrix Potter and Randolph Caldecott, to Margot Zemach, Harriet Pincus and Edward Ardizzone, and to Walt Disney, Mother Goose and Hans Christian Anderson. The author voices his deeply held opinions about every aspect of the world of the picture book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26061
- Title
- Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures.
- Author
- Sendak, Maurice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1871061067
- ISBN 13
- 9781871061062
- Publisher
- Reinhardt Books / Viking / Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- communication, books, children's literature, picture books, essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- LANGUAGE & BOOKS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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