About this title: This deceptively simple alphabet book offers much in its beautiful illustrations. Each letter of the alphabet is drawn as a wooden sculpture standing boldly in the middle of a white page, while opposite is an object beginning with that letter. Both pages have a detailed decorative border, which, when scrutinized, is discovered to be filled with flowers and animals, all beginning with the same letter. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1975.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Good. No dust jacket. text clean and tight, spine split and repaired neatly. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 64 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Near Fine in Good jacket. 10" x 9 1/4" Very nice condition except one page margin has a 1/5" x 1/2" whiteout (on white background). Cover is wood print paper over boards---in very nice condition. jacket has front flap price clip, a 1" taped tear at lower spine, small chips at folds, light upper edge curl and a rear crease. read more
Description: 1975 Hardcover Good+ Ex-library bound Yellow Picture cover No Dj some wear Text Good conditionfew repaired tears an adventure in Imagination; Published Thomas Y Crowell Company Boxd ISBN: 0690005407. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bodley Head, UK
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall Clean bds with gilt title to spine. Light bump to spine ends and corners. Colour illus. Interior very good and clean. Unclipped dustjacket with some light creasing and 22 mm tear to bottom front jacket edge and 5 mm tear to bottom jacket spine end. read more
Edition: 1975 1st Amer
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Crowell, New York
Date Published: c1974
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: author's trompe l'oeil art. Very good++, nf price clipped dj, oversized faux wood bds. Unpaged, ISBN: 0-690-00540-7. NOT ex-library. Bkplate FEP. A bit of tape residue to bds. No names, clean text. Lovely copy! read more
Edition: First US Ed
Binding: Cloth-backed Pictorial Boards
Publisher: Crowell, NY
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Author. About Very Good. No Dj. Square 4to. Mind-expanding ABC book with the letters depicted as if carved from wood and with an interesting object or person showing a word or scene with that letter. Corners are bumped and pages have some foxing here and there; a thin red ink scrawl & former owner's name on the front eps. Still quite good. Anno has WON 8 INT'L AWARDS. OUT OF PRINT. read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., N. Y.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hard cover is in near fine condition as is the price clipped dust jacket. Has a gift inscription on the fly page otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Very Good in very nice in mylar jacket. First Edition. First U. S. Editiodn hardcover; light edge wear to jacket-now in mylar; clean and tight; no marks. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crowell
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good. Signed (in Japanese characters) first edition. Very good book in very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Owner's bookplate under fly-leaf. Will ship quickly and carefully with confirmation and free USPS tracking number. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Picture Book. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall. First American edition hard cover with dust jacket, FINE/FINE. First printing stated. Lovely, unmarked copy. Dust jacket in new mylar. New York Times Best Books for Children award, 1975. Unpag., approx. 32pp., illustrated by author. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crowell
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Very Good in good + jacket. 64 pp. First printing. A nice looking book. Faint fold mark on first end paper. Jacket has one tiny tear but does have a little water rippling on the back, nothing on the book. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover with Dustjacket
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Tight binding. Clean crisp copy. No writing or markings in text. Price clipped from dustjacket. First Edition! Fine/Near Fine condition! read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Mitsumasa Anno. Good + in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" Square. Light rubs at corners and lower edges of boards. Non-authorial gift inscription to prev. owner on front free endpaper, plus prev. owner bookplate (classicly designed of gentleman reading in library) on front pastedown endpaper. Tape stain residue on front and rear pastedowns where endflaps previously taped. DJ is price-clipped and has a 3 inch closed tear at top of rear panel, plus edgewear and light soiling. DJ in plastic cover. ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crowell, New York
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Nr Fine/Nr Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall 0690005407 First edition not stated but no indication of other printings. Price NOT clipped. Clean and solid copy. Slight shelfwear only. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1975-01-01
ISBN-13:9780690005400ISBN:0690005407
Description: Fine- in Very Good jacket. First US printing. Clean, tight & unmarked. Price-clipped DJ has 4 short closed tears at edges, now protected in a new archival grade Mylar sleeve. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 98.1001; Ex library, usual markings, DJ presented in our mylar. Clean and crisp hardcover. Vg+vg+; 98.1001.; Ex-Library. read more
"A unique ABC book with each letter painted as though made of wood an appearing 3-dimensional. I also like the borders on each page that have hidden images illustrating each letter."
In this wordless alphabet book, each letter is shown as though carved out of wood; the facing illustrations and borders show objects beginning with that letter.
This is no beginner's alphabet book. Sure, it could be read on a basic level, identifying the letter. But a child can do that with any alphabet book - this one offers something more. Many of the letters are constructed like Escher drawings, showing impossible perspectives and curves. Many of the accompanying illustrations have an odd quirk or two: on the anvil for "A" we see a block of red-hot wood, the typewriter for "T" only as T keys, and so on. With all that's going on the main illustrations, it would be easy to miss the black and white border illustrations; take a closer look, a try to identify the flora and fauna whose names start with that page's letter. In case you miss anything, a guide at the back identifies "some of the things to be found in the pages of Mr. Anno's Alphabet." This isn't a flashy book, or one to share with a crowd, but an attentive child - or adult - could spend a long time poring over the fantastic details.
The School Library Journal review appropriately points out that the book isn't well-suited to the younger alphabet audiences, but is a little too dismissive of a child's ability to appreciate the artwork."
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