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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4to. 240 pages. Hardcover with a green dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. A sound copy and clean within. Seller Inventory # 042945
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Kate Greenaway: A Biography This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9780354042000
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. Seller Inventory # 95385
Book Description Condition: Fine/Fine. 1st. 8vo. 240pp. Gift quality copy. Seller Inventory # MAIN029185I
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780354042000
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. dust jacket shows slight shelf-wear, clean condition, price unclipped, 240pp, pages bright and clean and VG condition. Seller Inventory # 005237
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.74. Seller Inventory # 0354042009-2-3
Book Description Cloth, small 4to, 240 pp, numerous ills. From the blurb: "Most people think of Kate Greenaway as a style rather than as a person. Her name evokes idealised yet saucy children, dressed in a consciously old-fashioned manner, posed with care as though for a classical frieze and painted in delicate pastel colours. Looking at her work now it seems the quintessence of Victorian innocence as respectable Victorians wished to see it.Yet, behind this charming, though stylised work was its creator, the real Kate Greenaway - an ambitious, vulnerable, emotionally tormented woman. Her poignant, often tragic story is told here in full for the first time in this, the first authorised biography for over seventy-five years. Born in 1846 in London's East End, the daughter of a skilled wood engraver, Kate was, from the first, a child of strong, sometimes morbid feelings, a deeply sensitive solitary to whom daydreams and the romantic - even the bloodthirsty - spelled disillusionment with the real world. Instead of seeking fulfilment in that world she tended to seek escape within herself, an escape first given a local habitation and a name" during childhood visits to relatives in the English countryside. Throughout her whole artistic life it was this countryside and its folklore that sustained her. Moreover, in meeting the man who above all others symbolised to the Victorians these very attitudes, she entered on the great, obsessive passion of her life. That her love for the author, critic and prophet, John Ruskin, was almost certainly unconsummated is, in a strange way, almost irrelevant to the story of their poignant, turbulent romance, for Ruskin had, from the first, been given complete control, jealously supervising and dominating Kate Greenaway's life and work. Her unstinting devotion to him grew and endured, surviving even the fits of madness that plagued this great, self-tormented genius, a man dominated both by the sincerest devotion to art - and an obsession for just the sort of Greenaway girls Kate created. This strange relationship lies at the heart of Kate Greenaway's life and art, and makes a compelling story containing elements of comedy, pathos, tragedy and heartbreak. Rodney Engen has worked for over five years on researching this biography, using much unpublished correspondence (including over 1,000 love letters and the family papers) and interviews with surviving friends and relations. He has also uncovered many unpublished illustrations which appear here for the first time. His tone is frank, telling the story without false reverence but with a genuine perception of the extraordinary character of one of the Victorian era's most popular artists. The book is illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white, and an annotated list of Greenaway books is included for collectors and serious students of her work. " Near Very Good, top edge slightly duststained, in a used and price-clipped dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-10955
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Some color, mostly black and white photographs throughout. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 240 pages. Seller Inventory # 96134
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kate Greenaway (illustrator). First Edition. KATE GREENAWAY A Biography Rodney Engen. Macdonald Publishing, London 1981 First Edition ISBN 0354042009 240pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in fine unmarked condition. in an unclipped dust wrapper that has some slight edge wear but is entire. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901), known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator Ref O2. Seller Inventory # 009879