Details

Subject(s)

• Weddings—Humor—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Courtship—Humor—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Illustrator

• Pincus, Harriet [Browse]

Publisher

• Harcourt, Brace & World [Browse]

Former owner

• Tillson, Diana R. [Browse]
• McElderry, Margaret [Browse]

Donor

• Cooper, Susan, 1935- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fantasy fiction [Browse]
• Nonsense fiction [Browse]
• Picture books [Browse]
• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dust jackets (Bindings)—1967 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• picture books [Browse]

Summary note

The rag doll and the broom handle marry and have a grand wedding procession that includes the Spoon Lickers, the Tin Pan Bangers, the Chocolate Eaters, the Dirty Bibs, the Clean Ears, the Easy Ticklers, the Musical Soup Eaters, the Chubby Chubbs, and the Sleepyheads.

Notes

• Princeton copy 1: Letter from Harriet Pincus to Mrs. Jay Halls dated July 27, 1967 laid in; inscribed on half title "Welcome home, dear Ruth! So happy you are back! Margot. Purchased as a lot of Harriet Pincus picture books and illustrated postcards; probably from the personal library of Selma Lanes
• Cotsen c. 2: From the Diana R. Tillson Collection, gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen, Class of 1950.
• Princeton copy 3 Has two dustjackets. Inscribed by illustrator to McElderry. Art inscribed by illustrator laid in.

Binding note

Pub light green textured paper bds stamped in black; pink color pictorial dust jacket; color pictorial endpapers.

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 3 Gift; Susan Cooper; 2011.

ISBN

• 0152949305
• 9780152949303
• 0758739419
• 9780758739414

LCCN

67002763

OCLC

305164

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