BLUME, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Illustrated by Roy Doty. NY: E.P. Dutton [1972]. Orange boards with spine stamped in black and front stamped pictorially in blind. 10 full-page b&w illustrations. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, lower front corner ever-so-slightly bumped, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (a bit chipped and worn along edges, crease along spine, slightly soiled).

 

First edition in the original dust jacket with the $4.95 price intact. The introduction to Judy Blume’s beloved character Fudge, and the first of five novels about the Hatcher family. One of this beloved author’s most successful books and a modern classic of children’s literature that inspired the 1995 television series.