Item #10653 Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky. John LANGSTAFF.
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky
Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky

Frog Went A-Courtin' Retold by John Langstaff. With Pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1955). illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. Printing identification statement for this book: No Statement of Printing or Edition. [ Lacks First Edition Statement on the copyright page. -- Very early printing (likely a 2nd printing) of the first edition) as the book is signed by the author in April of 1956, and still has the first edition dust jacket price of $2.50. Later printings of the dust jacket had a 2.75 price. Dust jacket also has no blurb about being a Caldecott Award winner, although the Caldecott sticker is pasted to the front cover of the jacket ]. Hardcover. Quarto, blue boards, not paginated. Illustrated throughout in color by Feodor Rojankovsky. -- Blank endpaper has child's bookplate. -- Signed by the author with a charming inscription to a young boy in Alaska; "For Tommy whom I met in Anchorage -- That he will sing and remember this story as one of his own folk songs", (signed) John Langstaff, April 1956 (see comments below). --. Very good + / good. Item #10653

"Story of this Story" opposite the copyright page: "Nobody knows how or when this story really started. We do know that it was written down in Scotland more than 400 years ago. But it has always been the kind of story that was told and sung to children, instead of being read to them. The grandfathers and grandmothers sang it to the mothers and fathers, and mothers and fathers sang it to their children, and finally it got to us. Sometimes the grownups might forget some of the words, and the children would make up words they liked better, and. put them in the song. And so the ballad, or story, on down through all these hundreds of years, always changed a little bit as each new. person tried to sing it. Everyone liked his way best".-Thus the authors signed inscription for Tommy (see comments above).

Price: $150.00

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