“One day is one wave, and the next day the next, for the sea people―and whether they're glad or whether they're sorry, the sea washes it away.”
Jarrell’s final children’s book before his death—a story of how a lonely hunter gains a family made up of a mermaid, a bear, a lynx, and a boy.
Illustrations by Maurice Sendack (“Where the Wild Things Are”).
Author: Randall Jarrell
Title: The Animal Family
Edition: First UK Edition, first printing
Published: London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967
Physical Description: Hardcover; Oblong Duodecimo; 180p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, moderate chipping, mild creasing, and toning—in new dust jacket cover. Boards and spine very clean with some bow to front board. Binding solid and square. Pages toned. Front free end-paper clipped with creasing.
Comments: Scarce copy
