signed first edition Hard Cover
1978 · Philadelphia | New York
by Bruce and Katherine Coville
Philadelphia | New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo. in the publisher's white paper-covered pictorial boards; 46, [47] pages; this copy is signed by both Bruce and Katharine Coville, with a drawing of a frog (mimicking the front at the colophon). There is some tanning to the signed front endpaper from newspaper clippings about Bruce Coville, now still present but contained in. mylar; the dustjacket has several small chips.~~This is one of the very first (if not the first) production by the Covilles. Their career has not been without controversy. "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" was at one time banned in a school district in Iowa. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
(Inventory #: 294231)