Space Witch
Don Freeman
Hardcover
(Viking, March 15, 1959)
This is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket price of $2.00 by The Viking Press, 625 Madison Ave., New York 22, New York as a First Edition in 1959 and a Second Printing in November 1960. Lithograph by Halliday Lithograph Corp. Illustrated. Tilly Ipswitch, Queen of Halloween, returns from a visit to the planetarium with a copy of the book, What Every Space Traveler Ought to Know, and decides that she and her cat will journey into outer space, in order to find new worlds, full of people they can frighten. With a hand-made spacecraft powered by jet-black magic, Tilly and a very unwilling Kit head for the stars, but when they run out of fuel, they crash land in a most unexpected place... The author, Don Freeman (1908 - 1978) was an American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and an illustrator and writer of children's books. He was active from the 1930s to the 1970s and often used Times Square as the backdrop of his memorable works.