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Make Way For Ducklings.
de McCloskey, Robert
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Roy. New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Roy. 8vo, [67] pp. 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. A little edge wear to dust-jacket and half inch chip to bottom of spine, some toning of pastedowns but otherwise a lovely bright copy inside and out. § From the library of Nobel Laureate in Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, signed by him, with his bookplate and with a compliments card signed by the author both loosely inserted. First edition in an early dustjacket, still priced $2.00, and with the Caldecott Medal sticker for 1942. Chandrasekhar's seminal work in astrophysics led to the currently accepted theories on the lives of black holes.
Sinopsis
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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- John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 107120
- Título
- Make Way For Ducklings.
- Autor
- McCloskey, Robert
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Viking Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1941
- Tamaño
- Roy
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- Books in Six Specialties (SL2);
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