Book #70199

The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Jack Kent

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Parents Magazine Press, 1981.

Price: $50.00

A bright first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with lightly bumped corners, soiling, and rubbed extremities.

Memorable illustrator Jack Kent is, perhaps, best known as the creator of the King Aroo comics, but Kent also authored and illustrated more than 40 children's books. Among them are Fly Away Home, Mrs. Mooley, and The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo. The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo tells the story of Goober the Elephant who becomes distressed when he can no longer find his shadow; Color Illustrations; 8vo; Unpaginated pages.

Author Bio

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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