Next-day or second-day air service is available upon request. We ship worldwide and all packages will be sent via UPS or Federal Express unless another carrier is requested. We do ask that if you are not satisfied with the item, you contact us by phone as quickly as possible and return the item within ten days. For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. Two owner signatures.īook about-fine, price-clipped dust jacket very good with a few closed tears, modest toning to spine. “Filled with word-play, allusions, rhymes, alliteration, snatches of song and poetry, wild flights of fancy that veer into the absurd, and-in the greatest departure from his work for adults-happy endings… Many Moons is considered his best book for children, and it shows a tenderness and charm that his writing for adults does not.” With bright, colorful drawings by Slobodkin, whose “illustrations emphasize the theatrical, light-opera quality of the tale” (Silvey 643). Quarto, original red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition, winner of the Caldecott Medal for 1944, with colorful illustrations by Louis Slobodkin.Ī light-hearted fable, this was the first of five children’s books written by celebrated humorist James Thurber. ‘WHAT I WANT NOW IS THE MOON”: FIRST EDITION OF THURBER’S “BEST BOOK FOR CHILDREN” “‘NEVER MIND THE BLUE POODLES,’ SAID THE KING.

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