Berta And Elmer Hader: A Lifetime Of Art - Premiere Edition by Hoerner Rich, Joy; Karen Tolley; John and Judy Walter - 2013

Roseburg, OR: Joyful Productions. As New. 2013. Signed Limited Edition; First Printing; Signed by All Authors. Paper Wraps. 0989108708 . A most attractive printing Premier edition in original slip-case in New condition, illustrated wraps with French flaps. Limited to 100 signed, numbered, slipcased copies, this one being #22, (an additional 10 lettered copies were produced for creators of the book). Inscription inspired by the Haders, signed by the authors: Joyner Hoerner Rich, Karen Tolley, John Waller, Judy Waller and by the authors of the Foreword, Ed and Elaine Kemp; Berta and Elmer Hader were incredibly talented. They married in 1919 and together forged a fifty-year long artistic career that was to produce thousands of pieces of art, scores of children's books, and hundreds of paintings and sketches. They enjoyed winning a Caldecott award, international acclaim, and a huge following of happy children. Without Berta, there may have never been a Little House on the Prairie series and without Elmer the iconic dust-jacket for Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath would not have been; 144 pages .