Author: JARRELL, RANDALL (TEXT); SENDAK, MAURICE (ILLUSTRATIONS)
Title: The Animal Family
Description: New York: Pantheon Books / Random House, 1985. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394910435. A 1985 later printing of Randall Jarrell's final story before his passing. This is the charming story of a man who lived alone in the wilderness and who called the animals around him his family. Delightfully illustrated by Maurice Sendak. This edition is an exact replica of the original 1965 edition.--- In full blue cloth covers with cover decorations in silver and silver-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket features Sendak art to front panel. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, unmarked and newish but with two small tears to paper at rear gutter area which don't affect the stability of the binding. Unclipped jacket ($12.95) with a one-inch tear to top edge and general mild age-toning, else intact and in new removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (10), 180 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0394910435 >>Juvenile and Children's >>Illustrated Classics