Image and Maker: An Annual Dedicated to the Consideration of Book Illustration
by Darling, Harold; Neumeyer, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0881380113
- ISBN 13
- 9780881380118
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
La Jolla, CA: Green Tiger Press, 1984 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong Octavo. v, 56 pp, Preface by Harold Darling, Notes on Contributors, Introduction by Peter Neumeyer, How Picture Books Work by Perry Nodelman, What Manner of Beast? Illustrations of " Beauty and the Beast by Stephen Canham, Luther Daniels Bradley: Guide to the Great Somewhere-or-Other by Helen Borgens, Jessie Willcox Smith by Carolyn Haywood, the Great Catalogs: An Alternate Way to Study Early Children's Book Illustrations by Kenneth E. Luther, Bibliography of Illustrations. Includes numerous b&w illustrations, and 29 sumptuously colored, tipped-in plates, some of extreme rarity. Forgotten and undiscovered traasures as well as familiar favorites are the subjects of this first issue of Image and Maker. This issue contains hitheto unpublished and specially written articles on great children's book catalogues; reminiscences by an illustrious Illustrator-author; a lively critical essay on the picture book; a study of Beauty's Beasts; and a revival of the enexcusably neglected Luther Daniels Bradley. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth. Blind-stamped brown cloth..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001065
- Title
- Image and Maker: An Annual Dedicated to the Consideration of Book Illustration
- Author
- Darling, Harold; Neumeyer, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0881380113
- ISBN 13
- 9780881380118
- Publisher
- Green Tiger Press
- Place of Publication
- La Jolla, CA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING BOOK ILLUSTRATION CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING;
- Size
- Oblong Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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