First edition of this first entry in Blume's Fudge series, told from the point of view of a young boy with a menace for a brother — and one of her earliest classics.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $1,500.00
"Nobody ever worries about me the way they worry about Fudge. If I decided not to eat they'd probably never even notice!"
Along with FOREVER, ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET, BLUBBER, and many others, Blume's beloved novels have "provided a crash course in change, uncertainty, loneliness and countless other scourges of adolescence" (Elisabeth Egan) for generations of readers. TALES is an ode to the woes of sibling-hood, featuring one of the most indelible (and hilarious) scenes in all of young adult writing: Fudge's infamous turtle-swallowing incident. Increasingly scarce in the first edition, a foundational work of the Gen X psyche.
Read more: Egan, "The Essential Judy Blume," New York Times, Sept. 14, 2022.
First printing. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. New York, (1972). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth blind stamped turtle to front board, lettered in black to spine. In original unclipped ($4.95) color pictorial jacket by Roy Doty. Illustrated in black and white by Doty. [8], 120 pages. Jacket with some wear and light soil, chipping to foot of spine. Book lightly edgeworn, touches of soil to textblock edge, small stain to front endpaper. Else sound.
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