CHEEK BY JOWL. Seattle: Aqueduct Press, [2009]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1 [2] 3-149 [150: blank], illustrations, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters. Includes the lengthy "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature," a "reworking and expansion" of a lecture given in 2004 at a meeting of the American Library Association. "Wilderness scares us because it is unknown, indifferent, dangerous, yet it is an absolute need to us; it is that animal otherness, that strangeness, older and greater than ourselves, that we must join, or rejoin, if we want to stay sane and stay alive" (from Cheek by Jowl," p. 106). Publisher's publicity material and review letter laid in. A fine copy. (#167782).
Price: $25.00
First printing has code: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on copyright page.