The Very Hungry Caterpillar

by Eric Carle

$12,500 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

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New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969 . Oblong volume, measuring 8.25 x 11.25 inches: 24 . Original glossy color pictorial boards, color-patterned endpapers, original color pictorial dust jacket clipped at upper corner of front flap, priced at 3.91 at lower corner. Color illustrations and pictorial cut-outs throughout text. Inscribed with a sketch: “For Bee Thorpe / Eric Carle” on title page.

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