Lovable Lyle.
by WABER, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. . First edition, first printing, signed presentation copy from the author with original doodle of 'Lyle'; 4to; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's pictorial cloth, fine, clipped dust-jacket with small hole to fore-edge of lower panel, small closed split near head of spine, but overall a fine example.
A fine first edition of this the fourth in the 'Lyle' series, affectionately inscribed by the author/illustrator Bernard Waber: 'Warm and good wishes to Brian and Lyle Fass, Bernard Waber' followed by a doodle portrait of the character.
A fine first edition of this the fourth in the 'Lyle' series, affectionately inscribed by the author/illustrator Bernard Waber: 'Warm and good wishes to Brian and Lyle Fass, Bernard Waber' followed by a doodle portrait of the character.
Synopsis
Lyle is distraught to learn he has an enemy and tries to be an even more lovable crocodile than he was before.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101064
- Title
- Lovable Lyle.
- Author
- WABER, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.
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