New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo with white and yellow pictorial boards; white pictorial DJ; 32 pages: illustrations; 24 cm DJ is VG (+), price-clipped and showing small chips to head and foot of spine, closed tear to back, now protected in archival mylar sleeve; a VG (+) copy with light foxing to pages, discoloration to extremities; else clean and tight. Hardcover. ISBN: 06025677X
The mean and ugly Emperor decrees that evil, ugliness, and stupidity are to be worshipped by everyone but cannot banish the appreciation of goodness, beauty, and learning in his kingdom.
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