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Book search - illus. Children’s book re Old man, moon, devil

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Baylou
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Book search - illus. Children’s book re Old man, moon, devil

Post by Baylou » Tue December 19th, 2017, 7:55 pm

I’ve been looking for this book for about 10 years now with no luck. I don’t know the name or title. Just these things that I remember from reading it in the 1970s or early 80s:

It was an illustrated children’s book about how the old man ended up in the moon with only a spider for company (and an illustration of the old man sitting on the moon with the spider was the last or one of the last in the book). The old man made a deal with the devil or lost a bet with the devil or something like that. I recall that the devil was dressed as a sort of old-fashioned gentleman, but if you looked closely his hooves were visible, I think. And the book had a kind of old-fashioned quality in the way the characters were depicted, like in historical clothes. The illustrations were kind of muted colours and there were winter scenes, maybe one with a sleigh in snow. And another scene in a bar or tavern or pub.

Ring any bells with anyone?

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