[HYMAN, Trina Schart]. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. By Eric Kimmel. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. NY: Holiday House [1989]. 4to, [32]pp. Blue quarter-cloth stamped in silver with black boards pictorially stamped in blind. Gray endpapers; color illustrations on every page. Spine ends and lower corner a tad rubbed, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (Spine ends a tad rubbed, no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by the artist, Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman!

 

First edition. 1990 Caldecott Honor Book! On the first night of Hanukkah, a weary traveler named Hershel of Ostropol eagerly approaches a village, where plenty of latkes and merriment should warm him. But when he arrives not a single candle is lit. A band of frightful goblins has taken over the synagogue, and the villagers cannot celebrate at all! Hershel vows to help them. But can one man alone stand up to the goblins, save Hanukkah, and live to tell the tale?