About this Item
First edition in black cloth with decoration stamped in red on the front board and red and silver on the spine, to pedge stained orange, , orange end papers, jacket and interiors by Joseph Mugnaini. Inscribed by Bradbury on the front free endpaper - "For Frank Sutherland - on Halloween 1980 with good wishes from the man who planted the Halloween Tree! Ray Bradbury Oct. 31 1980". New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1972), 145 pps. Fine book in fine mylar protected jacket with slight wear to spine ends and light smudge on rear flap. Beautiful addition to any collection with great inscription. Seller Inventory # 090073
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Halloween Tree
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Mugnaini, Joseph
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Bradbury's stories about children are always attended by dread--of change, adulthood, death. The Halloween Tree, while sweeter than his adult literature, is also touched at moments by the cold specter of loss--which is only fitting, of course, for a holiday in honor of the waning of the sun.
This is a superb book for adults to read to children, a way to teach them, quite painlessly, about customs and imagery related to Halloween from ancient Egypt, Mediterranean cultures, Celtic Druidism, Mexico, and even a cathedral in Paris. (One caveat, though: Bradbury unfortunately perpetuates a couple of misconceptions about Samhain, or summer's end, the Halloween of ancient Celts and contemporary pagans.) This beautiful reprint edition has the original black-and-white illustrations and a new color painting on the dust jacket. --Fiona Webster
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