The Phantom Tollbooth

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.