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CARLE, Eric
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1970
Oblong 8vo., decorative laminate boards featuring the iconic caterpillar illustration to the upper board; the leaf to the lower; lettered in black to upper cover and spine; decorative endpapers; unpaginated [pp. Xvi], illustrated throughout in full colour; with the die-cut pages demonstrating the way the caterpillar ‘eats’ through the book, including the gradient day-by-day synopsis of his eating habits in which the pages gradually increase in length; some minor marking to boards; a little scuffed around the spine; slightly shaky in the binding, but holding firm, with some finger smudges throughout and a previous owner’s name to the head of the title page.
First UK edition, first printing, printed in Japan due to the high costs of punching through the paper.
Carle’s third illustrated work, and only the second he authored, has since become one of the most popular children’s books of the 20th century, reportedly selling over 50 million copies and translated into 60 different languages. The plot follows a little caterpillar who emerges from an egg extremely hungry, and proceeds to munch through a small mountain of food, emerging on the other side of his cocoon as a beautiful butterfly.
CARLE, Eric
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1970
Oblong 8vo., decorative laminate boards featuring the iconic caterpillar illustration to the upper board; the leaf to the lower; lettered in black to upper cover and spine; decorative endpapers; unpaginated [pp. Xvi], illustrated throughout in full colour; with the die-cut pages demonstrating the way the caterpillar ‘eats’ through the book, including the gradient day-by-day synopsis of his eating habits in which the pages gradually increase in length; some minor marking to boards; a little scuffed around the spine; slightly shaky in the binding, but holding firm, with some finger smudges throughout and a previous owner’s name to the head of the title page.
First UK edition, first printing, printed in Japan due to the high costs of punching through the paper.
Carle’s third illustrated work, and only the second he authored, has since become one of the most popular children’s books of the 20th century, reportedly selling over 50 million copies and translated into 60 different languages. The plot follows a little caterpillar who emerges from an egg extremely hungry, and proceeds to munch through a small mountain of food, emerging on the other side of his cocoon as a beautiful butterfly.