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Author: Brown, Margaret Wise
Title: Goodnight Moon
Place Published: [New York]
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1947
Description:

Illustrated in color by Clement Hurd. (Oblong 8vo) original cloth-backed pictorial non-glossy boards, later pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.

Early printing, with non-glossy boards, Harper & Brothers listed on title page. Later jacket, with $2.50 price on front flap, blue ribbon sticker removed from front panel. One of the most popular children's books of the 20th century. The National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. It is also among the most difficult picture books to find in the first edition. This copy with a later dust jacket.

General wear to jacket with areas of staining, blue ribbon sticker removed, some closed tears with a number of clear tape repairs, bottom front flap clipped; boards with rubbing to edges, toning, foxing to rear board; faint foxing to endpapers; very good volume in good jacket.