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1962. Hardcover. Good. 1962 Hardcover Good+ Ex-library Picture cover No Dj some cover edge wear with musical themes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adapted and Illustrated by Updike, John and Warren Chappell Borzoi Book P9 ISBN: 0394913841

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Oblong quarto. Decorated cloth. Endpapers and a few pages lightly foxed, a few pages with modest stains, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, about very good in a spine-tanned good only dust jacket with a long tear at rear spine fold, 1" loss at spine foot, some soiling and foxing (more so on the rear panel), and a few creases and small tears. Adapted by Updike from musical themes of Mozart. The scarcer of the two issues (there was also an unjacketed library issue) of the author's scarcest children's book.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong, about 10-1/4 by 7-3/4 inches. 'With Musical Themes By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' -- from the cover. Library binding edition, with illustrated boards. Illustrations in color. Also issued in a trade edition bound in yellow cloth with dust jacket. First edition (first printing). Library binding but not an ex-library copy, thus uncommon. No dust jacket, as issued. Some wear to spine ends and corners, and one corner lightly bumped, thus very good.

[London]: Andre Deutsch and Edmund Ward, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Oblong quarto. Illustrated paper over boards. A touch of rubbing at the base of the spine, still fine in very near fine dust jacket with two short tears on the rear panel and a smudge on the front panel. Adapted by Updike from musical themes of Mozart. The English edition of the author's scarcest children's book is very uncommon.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Oblong quarto. Decorated cloth. Slight foxing, else fine in near very good dustwrapper with several tears and tiny nicks. Signed by Updike. Adapted by Updike from musical themes of Mozart. The scarcer of the two issues (there was also an unjacket library issue) of the author's scarcest children's book. Uncommon signed.