Harold's Trip to the Sky by Crockett Johnson cover, Harold is holding a purple crayon and drawing star shapes

Harold's Trip to the Sky by Crockett Johnson cover, Harold is holding a purple crayon and drawing star shapes

Photographic scan of cover of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Title printed in capitalized white serif type and creator information printed in smaller gray italicized serif type, standard capitalization. Illustration set on black background with large stars drawn in purple. It also features Harold perched over the large central star drawing, purple crayon in hand. Publisher name printed along the bottom of the cover in small sans serif type, with series name printed in italicized black serif type on vertical purple banner on the left side of the cover.