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Scholastic, Inc. 1965. Soft Cover. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very very scarce book. A Lucky Book Club edition of this very special book for children, illustrated with a fine selection of drawings by Maurice Sendak. The cover is a tan color with green letters and a little boy in red overalls. The background has a little house, 4 trees, a white goose, a crow in a tree, and a flying bird below t he sun, all this is done in the same green as the title. Original price in 1965 - 50 cents also TJ748 book number. Poor Cicero! Nobody wants to hear him play his new tin fiddle. "What good is a tin f i ddle of nobody will listen to it?" he thinks. But soon Cicero finds out that his fiddle is good for something after all - something very special. Some light browning of page borders. Library stamp o n FFep, but this is NOT a library book. Book was purchased at an event put on at the library where the public brought in their books and the library stamped… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +/very good. Oblong clothbound book. Unpaginated. With illustrations by Sendak. First edition of one of Sendak's scracest titles. Very good plus copy in rose-colored cloth binding. The price-intact dustwrapper ($2.00) has a couple of short closed tears to the edges and some light wear at the crown of the spine. Nice copy of an uncommon first edition. Hanrahan A.14.