Item #20921 Crossing. Philip Booth.
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Crossing.

Cambridge, MA; Candlewick Press, 2001 stated 1st; (text co. 1953); shiny boards with wrap-around painting of a huge steam engine against the sky; endpapers with close up rusted iron machine surface, stiff card red and white striped band, (representing the crossing guard rail gates) folds about front and back with jacket flap type information on each inside end; 10x11.5"; np. Picture Book hardback.

Oversized realistic paintings by a Russian artist, showing the people waiting at the crossing gate, all the cars passing, and then the gates lifted and the people going joyfully across. An illustration of a poem included in the author's 1953 collection.

CONDITION: Fine with band in Fine condition; as new, no names or other flaws; unclipped band 16.99. Item #20921

Price: $56.00

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