THE STARRY NIGHT

Boyds Mills Press, 1999. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Neil Waldman color illustrations/repros of Van Gogh. CONDITION: PLEASE READ. UNREAD 1999 Boyds Mills Press hardcover (pictorial boards) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, 4th printing. Decorated end pages. Small problem of light edge wear top DJ edge (height of book most likely). CONTENT: On a summer day in Central Park, a boy meets a man named Vincent. He is a painter, and the picture on his old wooden easel shows the park's daffodils in all their yellow splendor. The painting captures the boy's imagination. Soon Vincent and the boy are exploring Manhattan, from Battery Park to Harlem, from Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village. Vincent paints the city in bright and beautiful colors. Then one day he takes the boy to a museum. He leads him to a painting of a country village. No sooner does the boy recognize the painting as one of Vincent's than his friend disappears. But Vincent has left the boy a gift: the desire to paint a picture. Neil Waldman's special book, featuring stunning Van Gogh-inspired paintings of Manhattan, speaks to that part of a child that knows no limits - —the imagination.