About this Item
Hardcover. Condition: Book is in Fine- and DJ in Fine condition. Mugnaini, Joseph (illustrator). First edition. Inscribed by Bradbury on the title page. The trade issue bound in original black cloth with lettering and small mask illustration in silver and red is in perfect condition. All pages are clean, white without markings. The book seems unread. Clean top and bottom endpapers. DJ is Fine- with bright Mugnaini illustrated dust jacket with minor rubbing at the corners. The $3.95 price on the front flap is present and no clipping. Seller Inventory # ABE-1701211293053
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Halloween Tree
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Joseph Mugnaini
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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