first edition
1986 · New York
by Shulevitz, Uri
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this thrilling tale of a middle-aged proboscis monkey who, bored with his simple life, becomes embroiled in a rural animal noir. Artist and author Uri Shulevitz got his start as an illustrator for a Hebrew book publisher before being snapped up by Harper & Row. He has earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors for his often dreamy works. 8.5'' x 6.75''. Original brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($11.95) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 90 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, sunning to spine; a touch of soil to (truncated)