The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats [HARDCOVER RE-PRINT] 1988 ❅ 28th Printing ❅ The Viking Press

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats 

HARDCOVER RE-PRINT ❄ 28th PRINTING [1988] THE VIKING PRESS

28th Hardcover Printing in the original line begun with the true 1962 first edition.  Reinforced trade edition [featuring laminated pictorial boards as opposed to the traditional cloth-bound boards.]

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket has some mild shelf wear; otherwise very nice.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  

Book itself is excellent.  Small stamp on front endpaper.  Reads beautifully; no markings or noticeable wear to pages.

No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

"Keats's sparse collage illustrations capture the wonder and beauty a snowy day can bring to a small child."—Barnes & Noble

"Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow."—Publisher's Weekly