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New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. 34 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with white and red lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean to binding, light soiling and uneven fading to cloth, lightly frayed at corners and spine ends. Former owner inscription to half-title page, pages lightly tanned. A truly iconic work, The Snowy Day has been named on the most important books of the 20th century by the New York Public Library, inspired a series of U.S. postage stamps in 2017, and was the first children's book with a Black protagonist to win a major award.

The Snowy Day is a 1962 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. It features Peter, an African American boy, who explores his neighborhood after the season's first snowfall. Keats's illustrations are collage and paint, and they bring to life the wintry urban setting with simple shapes and bursts of color.

Look for the library price and the presence of the Caldecott Medal note. First edition copies of 'The Snowy Day' typically have the library price of $3.00 and no mention of the Caldecott Medal on the front cover.