THE MAGIC BED-KNOB: or How To Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons

by Mary Norton, Waldo Peirce

$1,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: Hyperion, 1943. First edition of this brightly illustrated classic — basis in part for the 1971 Disney animated live-action hybrid BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, scarce in such a nice jacket. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Item #54764 This WWII-era children's book and its sequel BONFIRES AND BROOMSTICKS are now best remembered for being the inspiration behind the 1971 Angela Lansbury-led Disney film

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