The Angry Moon
William Sleator, Illustrated by Blair Lent
First edition, first printing of Sleator's first published book and winner of a 1971 Caldecott Honor. With fantastic illustrations by Blair Lent.
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1970. Publisher's original blindstamped blue cloth; pp. 48. Presumed to be an institutional copy, with publication bookplates to front endpapers, small sticker removed from spine. Otherwise internally quite clean and fine. Binding remains sturdy, light wear to boards with fading to the spine. Jacket remains bright and vivid with the price intact, front flap clipped at the bottom corner, a single crease along the middle of the panels, a couple tape remnants to rear flap, protected in archival mylar. Uncommon.