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Published by Young Learner Publications
ISBN 10: 9386003007ISBN 13: 9789386003003
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New. pp. 16.
Published by Young Learner Publications
ISBN 10: 9386003007ISBN 13: 9789386003003
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: New. pp. 16.
Published by Henry Holt,New York, 1938
Seller: Fabri Antiquariat Dr. Jürgen Aschoff, Ulm, BW, Germany
Signed
Mrs Peregrine and the Yak. Illustrated by Eloise Wilkin. Decorated paper over new boards (Hardcover) with blue cloth spine (new bibliphil binding in original illustr. color. Paper). Illustrated charming endpapers. No marks except long dedication in old lettering on empty second frontpaper, no foxing, just a perfect beautiful book. Cute illustrations, inside pages clean and unmarked. Poem on the front and back endpapers by Hilaire Belloc. A bright and attractive copy. Black and white plus colour illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Like new! I have never read a more charming book on Tibet!!! unpag. 51 S. Eloise Margaret Wilkin, born Eloise Margaret Burns (March 30, 1904 - October 4, 1987), was an award-winning American illustrator, best known as an illustrator of Little Golden Books. Wilkin often illustrated the titles of her sister, children's author Esther Burns Wilkin, who married Eloise's brother-in-law. Many of the picture books she illustrated have become classics of American children's literature. Jane Werner Watson, who edited and wrote hundreds of Golden Books, called Eloise Wilkin "the soul of Little Golden Books",[1] and Wilkin's books remain highly collectible. Her watercolor and colored pencil illustrations are known for their glowing depiction of babies, toddlers, and their parents in idyllic rural and domestic settings.She became a freelance illustrator after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a year later was in New York City, with Joan Esley, another graduate. Maybe that's why Joan's LGB, Play Street looks so much like and Eloise book. Her first day in New York she was given a book contract to illustrate for Century Publishing. Married, Sydney Wilkin, around 1935, they moved to Canandaigua to illustrate and raise a family. Eloise, illustrated her first book with her sister Esther Wilkin (married Sydney's brother), Mrs. Peregrine and the Yak, in 1939. They would collaborate on around 20 books. In 1943, George Duplaix, and editor for Simon & Schuster and one of the key people in the development of Little Golden Books asked her to come to New York and talk about a contract. She told him she couldn't because she hadn't a babysitter. Duplaix, would not take no and Eloise went to New York and signed a contract with the Little Golden Book people to do around four books a year. She illustrated, exclusively for Golden Books from 1943 to 1961. Her last book for Golden was published around the mid 80's.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York,, 1939
First Edition
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, Stated First Edition on Copyright pg & on Inner Flap DJ, 1939. 1st Printing, SalmonPink Buckram Cloth Hard Cover with Blue Titles, Spine Cover light chipping edges & Light Fade. Book Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD-, AS-IS, 8vo ,Slight to moderate dampstaining to covers and spine. Otherwise, contents clean and tight. Dustjacket is slightly rubbed/faded/soiled with a large open tear on the spine Cvr takes out part of Publishers Nme and chipping at the extremities DJ. Large octavo, 319 pgs,Index, Cover light rub, wear Scuffing, DJ protected in clear Mylar . Illustrated with B/W photographs including frontispiece of de Mille on location Directing the Movie Buccaneer. Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped but Original price of $3.50 Intact on back inner Flap, .He tells about the early days of Hollywood from first-hand experience as the Despised Movie of 1914 grew into the most socially important form of drama in the world. A very intersting early film book. A solid copy of a rare book, Discusses the fight of independents led by Adolph Zukor to free film industry from dictation & censorship. Theres an exciting & Highly informative information section dealing with the disintegration arising from the coming of Sound Pictures. Filled with Original Revealing anecdotes of Producers, Director & Technicians & stars Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Geraldine Farrar , Greta Garbo, Thomas Meighan ETC.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition Signed
A handsome copy bound in two-toned cloth, with orange cloth spine stamped in black, and navy cloth-covered blue boards stamped in pink. Very clean and tight throughout; with light, narrow smudges at the top and bottom of the paste-downs and some darkening and leeching of color along the bottom1/8" of the front panel. Signed by: Noted violinist and band leader "Hall Johnson, Christmas 1942. Hollywood." In a worn, heavily chipped dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kaufer who also did the drawings throughout the book. Kaufer has used white ink on black paper to create striking illustrations. The jacket has the original price of $2.50 at the top of the inside front flap. With darkening to the spine and pieces missing at the top of the spine ends taking out the "S" in Shakespeare. Chipping along the top edge of the front panel; and missing pieces at the corners. James Mercer Langston Hughes (1901 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue." (Wikipedia) Hall Johnson was a highly regarded African American choral director, composer, arranger, and violinist who dedicated his career to preserving the integrity of the Black spiritual as it had been performed during the era of slavery. His Hall Johnson Choir, the first professional group of its kind, enjoyed a successful concert and recording career for more than three decades in the United States and abroad. During his professional life Johnson coached hundreds of distinguished musicians, including the famous opera singer Marian Anderson. Virtually every Black singer of note has performed Johnson s solo compositions and arrangements. Born on March 12, 1888, in Athens, Georgia, Hall Johnson was the son of William Decker Johnson, a minister, and Alice Virginia Sansom, a former slave. Johnson was given his first at age 14, with which he taught himself to play. Athens was home to a large, prosperous African American middle class, with excellent schools, and Johnson did well. He graduated from the preparatory school in 1903 and then moved on to Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, where his father had recently been named president. In 1908, Johnson switched his studies to the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his college degree in 1912, Johnson returned to Athens. Johnson gained a reputation as an excellent music teacher, and played violin in the orchestras of several Broadway productions, performing behind great entertainers such as Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, and Josephine Baker. He found additional work in more than one dance band, including a stint touring the United States with a group known as the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. In 1923, he took the seat of the violinist in a chamber music group he helped form called the Negro String Quartet. The group performed pieces across a wide spectrum from the standard classical canon to contemporary pieces by African Americans. Johnson produced his own Broadway musical in 1933, Run Little Chillun, a production he called a folk opera. Johnson worked with Walt Disney; and the Hall Johnson Choir was featured in the soundtracks on Snow White, Dumbo, and Song of the South. Over his lifetime, Johnson was a consummate breaker of barriers, and not just between White and Black or between the world of churches and the world of mass entertainment. On April 30, 1970, Johnson died when a fire broke out in his New York apartment building. This volume is from Hall Johnson s library which was salvaged from the Brooklyn fire. "First Edition" Stated on the copyright page.
Condition: Good. London, Jonathan Cape, 1935. 4:o. 672 pp.+ 3 facimiles,+ 48 plates, of which 4 in colour,+ 4 folding maps. With tissue guards to the colour plates. Full blue morocco, gilt spine with raised bands and red label, double crossed swords in compartments, blind stamped boards with the swords on front, top edge gilt. Limited editon of 750 numbered copies, of which this is nr 59, issued a day before the trade edition. Inserted is the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial pamphlet. (4) pp. O?Brien A041. This edition published at July 29, 1935 and the trade edition at July 30. This limited edition contains three extra facsimiles, not present in the trade edition, and four plates in colour, black and white in the other. This copy has also the frontispice portrait, which O?Brian does not mention to the limited edition. This is the third edition, but the first public. The book was first printed for friends in 1922 and to subscribers in 1926. Hardcover / Hardback.