The Phantom Tollbooth

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Overview:

Title: The Phantom Tollbooth
Author: Norton Juster
Year: 1961
Publisher: Epstein & Carroll
Price: $3.95
Pages: 255
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Phantom Tollbooth
Notes: 1st ed. Price from reviews 1961-11-12 NY Times pBRA35 by Ann McGovern; NY Herald Tribune pI14; The Sun (Baltimore) pA7 by Barbara Moody. One earlier hit 2017-03-08 in auto-search of multiple newspapers: columnist John Crosby, NYHT 1961-09-22 p23, brief review and lengthy quotation of Juster on children's books.

Dustjacket and cover images provided by one dealer at Biblio.com show the same illustration as that of several later editions: Milo and Tock, by Feiffer, color on blue background and white stamped? on blue cloth respectively. See also the Publisher record.