I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
by Opie, Iona, and Opie, Peter (Edited by)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0763659495
- ISBN 13
- 9780763659493
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About This Item
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2012. 160 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 20 cm. Original edition first published by William and Northgate Ltd., London, 1947. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. Fine DJ. A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child. CONTENTS: Introduction; Beginning of term; "Esau" and other dramas; Characters; Nonsense; Insults; Retaliation; Reality; Graces; Riddles; More Characters; Teasing and repartee; Counting-out rhymes; Game rhymes; Guile, malicious; Guile, innocent; More insults; Still more characters; Verbal fun; Book protection; Book desecration; Mock scholastic; On some famous teachers; Lamentation; Reproachfulness; Seasonal; Contempt; Incantation; Lullabies, adolescent style; End of term; Notes. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 091582
- Title
- I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
- Author
- Opie, Iona, and Opie, Peter (Edited by)
- Illustrator
- Sendak, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0763659495
- ISBN 13
- 9780763659493
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Place of Publication
- Somerville, MA
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Genre & Subject / Children;
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- Tight
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