Vtg 1st Ed 1972 The Dragon Takes A Wife Walter Dean Myers Art Ann Grifalconi
Item History & Price
vintage 1972, First edition, first printing of the paperback edition of The Dragon Takes A Wife by Walter Dean Myers. The first picture book by Walter Dean Myers, who later becomes a Newbery Honor author and Coretta Scott King winner. The book was reissued in 1995 with a new illustrator .This book has the original illustrations from Ann Grifalconi. This is a very hard to find edition of this story. This is an early children's book with an African American prot...agonist - The Good fairy is an African American character and speaks the groovy mod lingo of the early 1970s - a Multi Cultural Fairy tale - I have scanned the original copyright information for your review. This is the paper edition published by Xerox. I believe the number line indicates a first printing of the paperback, but I am not absolutely certain, so I will leave that to you. Size: approx 9 3/8ths by 7 inches; the book is not paginated, but I counted approx 31 pages. This original paperback does not have an ISBN number. However, the reissued title has ISBN-10: 0590466933Condition: good vintage - the only marking in the book is the name of the previous child owner with also a few child marks on the blank interior of the cover. There is also a chip or nick at the base of the spine and some light age wear to the covers. Interior pages still clean, unmarked and brightly illustrated. This is not an ex-libary book
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