First printing of Brown's glowing alphabet book, a sequence of exquisitely colored woodcuts of animals and the natural world.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $250.00
"Every turn of the page hits you with a whole new view in a startlingly different key [...]. A very first book, and one to grow on. - Kirkus
Brown, a graduate of the New York State College for Teachers (later SUNY Albany) worked as a high school teacher and children's librarian for several years while writing and illustrating; over the course of her career she garnered three Caldecott Medals and was a Caldecott finalist for six other books. Brown worked in several media and had a particular affinity for woodcuts.
Read more: Kirkus Reviews, "All Butterflies: An ABC."
First edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1974). 10'' x 8''. Original pictorial boards. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Brown throughout. Minor bumping to boards. Jacket with light wear and soil to edges, a couple of tiny closed tears at spine head.
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