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Make Way For Ducklings
by McCloskey, Robert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG-/Good-
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About This Item
McCloskey, Robert: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Letterpress text and drawings in lithographic crayon on zinc, printed throughout in brown with title page lettered in green, pictorial endpapers. Beige cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in green. Dust-jacket printed in green and brown, $2.00 price flap unclipped. Two green and gold award labels affixed: Distinguished American Books for Children, and The Caldecott Medal. No printing on back panel of jacket. Used. VG-/ Good- 2nd State Dust Jacket that has some silverfish/cricket damage to back panel. Please see our photos. Caldecott Award winner for 1942. Former owner name written on title page. An uncommon book in a $2.00 unclipped dust jacket. Un-paginated. Protected in a clear mylar wrap. 9 ¼ X 12 1/4. This title has been designated as the official children's book for the City of Boston.
Extended Description and Notes
McCloskey, Robert. MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Letterpress text and drawings in lithographic crayon on zinc, printed throughout in brown with title page lettered in green, pictorial endpapers. Beige cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in green. Dust-jacket printed in green and brown, $2.00 price flap unclipped. Two green and gold award labels affixed: Distinguished American Books for Children, and The Caldecott Medal. Emblems are in nice shape. Used . VG-/ Good- 2nd State Dust Jacket that has some silverfish/cricket damage to back panel. Please see our photos. Caldecott Award winner for 1942. Former owner name written on title page. An uncommon book in a $2.00 unclipped dust jacket. Un-paginated. Protected in a clear mylar wrap. 9 ¼ X 12 1/4. This title has been designated as the official children's book for the City of Boston.
Synopsis
Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massachusetts. Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's illustrations, executed in charcoal then lithographed on zinc plates. As of 2003, the book had sold over two million copies.
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- Bookseller
- Mary Riversong Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 076McCloskeyDucklings
- Title
- Make Way For Ducklings
- Author
- McCloskey, Robert
- Illustrator
- McCloskey, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated Fifth Printing Thus
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- Unpaginated
- Size
- 9 1/4 X 12 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00
- Keywords
- Dust Jacket, Ephemera, Illustration, Boston, Ducks, Duckling, Birds, 2nd state, McCloskey Dust Jacket, Cover Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- For Sale; Children's Books; Literature; Americana; Nature; Social Sciences; Birds; American History; illustrated; Fiction; Dust Jacket; Zoology; Reading;
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