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Black And White  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Macaulay, David

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  • Signed
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Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10
0395521513
ISBN 13
9780395521519
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0395521513 . An attractive first printing of the first edition in Fine condition in just about Fine pictorial dust-jacket. Gray boards with blind tooled illustration of a cow on front cover, black cloth spine with white lettering, red endpapers. Signed and dated 7-18-08 by David Macaulay directly on the front end paper. Macaulay added a charming drawing with an added "crime pays" commentary; The winner the 1991 Caldecott medal, contains a puzzle, a game, and four seemingly unfolding stories with each double-page spread: Seeing Things, Problem Parents, A Waiting Game, and Udder Chaos. "Nothing can be intelligently or intelligibly recorded on a piece of paper unless true seeing occurs: first on the part of the person making the picture, and then on the part of the person reading it. " -David Macaulay; Color Illustrations; 4to ; [32] pages; Signed by Author .

Synopsis

Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?

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Bookseller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
29723
Title
Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Macaulay, David
Illustrator
Illustrated by David Macaulay
Format/Binding
1/4 Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0395521513
ISBN 13
9780395521519
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1990
Keywords
Collectible Out-of-print Rare, Literature, Nonlinear
Bookseller catalogs
Awarded Illustrators; Awarded Books / Caldecott Medal;

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