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Crowell [Published date: 1981]. Hard cover, 58 pp. Stated First printing, with full number line. Good in good dust jacket. Mustard paper over boards with copper acorn on front and red cloth with copper lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners. Binding tight. Light spotting to edges of text block. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1/4" or less nicks and tears and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Charming illustrations by Susanna Natti. [From front jacket flap] 'The dire warning has come: The animals of Woodland will starve if something isn't done. The Wizard Squirrelin is the kingdom's last and only hope - and he tells the startled knights at King Earthor's round table, "Nuts! In fact, nuts to all of you." But nuts are the answer for Woodland. One very special nut, at least. Across the land far away, past a sleeping dragon, in the middle of a Magical Lake is the Golden Acorn that, Squirrelin tells them, has the power to save the land from famine. Their knapsacks packed with the last few mealy apples from Woodland's stricken trees, Squirrelin and four brave knights - Sir Tarryhere the turtle, Sir Belliful the groundhog, Sir Gimmemore the rabbit, and Sir Runsalot the mouse - set out to seek the Golden Acorn, through Perilous, Dolorous, and Very Queer Adventures, to the very Edge of the World. With her raggle-taggle Fellowship on its heroic Quest, Jane Yolen has created a beguiling spoof of Arthurian legend. Susanna Natti's witty renderings of King Earthor's band of dear, silly knights multiply the mirth all around.