The Bat-Poet, Randall Jarrell: Hardback: 1st UK Edition: Illustrated

The Bat-Poet

By  Randall Jarrell.

Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1977. First UK edition. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 43 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout.

CONDITION
Overall fair condition - see photos. Some wear/small tears to edges of dustjacket. Some fading to edges of hardcover. Name written in pen to top right of dustjacket, and to front free end paper. 

There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days--he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

With illustrations by Maurice Sendak, The Bat-Poet - a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book selection - is a collection of the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make heads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable.

(Bindery shelves A3)