Charlotte and the White Horse
by Ruth Krauss
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
KRAUSS, Ruth. Charlotte and the White Horse. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. [NY]: Harper and Brothers [1955]. 12mo, [24]pp. Black cloth spine with color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. Spine ends and lower corners slightly rubbed, else a clean tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (sunning to spine panel and one-inch along right edge of front panel). Inscribed and dated ("May 9, 1966") by the artist, Maurice Sendak!
First edition. The fourth collaboration between these two giants of children's books. Sendak's softly lit illustrations wonderfully capture Krass' heartwarming tale of a girl who convinces her father to keep a wobbly legged horse and care for him until he can stand on his own.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1112036
- Title
- Charlotte and the White Horse
- Author
- Ruth Krauss
- Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth spine with color pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- [24]pp.
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
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- 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....