The little drummer boy / Ezra Jack Keats ; words and music by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone

Author: Keats, Ezra Jack
Published: New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Collier-Macmillan Linited, [1968]
Copyright Date: ©1968
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, music ; 20 x 24 cm
Additional Creators: Davis, Katherine, 1892-1980, Onorati, Henry, Simeone, Harry, Hopkins, Lee Bennett, and Macmillan Company

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Summary

An illustrated version of the popular Christmas carol about the procession to Bethlehem and the offer of a poor boy to play his drum for the Christ Child. Music for the song appears in the back of the book.

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ISBN

0027495302
9780027495300
0020440901
9780020440901

Collection

Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.

Note

"First printing."
Rare Books copy: "First printing" stated on title-page; in publisher's color pictorial paper-covered boards and original dust jacket (trade issue; price "$3.95" intact on upper corner of front flap); AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on title-page: "For Lee Hopkins [Lee Bennett Hopkins] / with all good wishes / [signed] Ezra Jack Keats / Dec. 7, 1968."

Source of Acquisition

Rare Books copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.

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