Author: RYDER, Joanne
Title: The Snail's Spell
Description: New York, The Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynne Cherry. Wide 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. (28pp). Extensive color illustrations. Fine/fine. Quite tight and immaculate first edition of this beautifully-illustrated microscopic exploration of a garden. Inscribed and signed large and bold by the author in blue marker on the front flyleaf along with a series of rubberstamped images of snails: "To / Mary Ann / Vandermillen / Joanne Ryder." Circular gold-foil sticker at lower right of front jacket panel notes "Winner / Childrens Science Book Award / The New York Academy of Sciences / 1817.". .

Keywords: Children's


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