Urchin of the Riding Stars illustrator-W.S. Rogers Marbled endpapers

Marbled endpapers

” which had appeared in the May 1946 issue of Weird Tales with Ray Bradbury's story "The Smiling People

Featuring an original image by Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak and created to welcome Clinton into office by the Children of America

and one gallant

Urchin of the Riding Stars illustrator-W.S. Rogers Marbled endpapersMcALLISTER, M[argaret] I. Urchin of the Riding Stars. The Mistmantle Chronicles. [London] Bloomsbury [2005]. 8vo, 333pp. Color pictorial boards. Blue endpapers; half tone illustrated title page and chapter headings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. First edition. The first book in M. I. McAllisters The Mistmantle Chronicles trilogy. An epic fantasy set in a world of talking squirrels, otters, and moles, with echoes of Watership Down, Duncton Wood,