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Collier, 2001. reliable paperback.. Paperback. Good.
Original artist's maquette for Get-a-way and Hary Janos. No date, but before 1933, when Viking published the first edition. Sixty-four pencil numbered pages. The title page and contents leaf are drawn in crayon and pencil. The first full opening, pages 4 and 5, is quite fully rendered in pencil, crayon, and watercolor. The next recto (page 7) has a very accomplished pencil sketch for an illustration; the book is otherwise blank. Two rough sketches are laid in by Petersham, Maud and Miska - 1933
by Petersham, Maud and Miska
Original artist's maquette for Get-a-way and Hary Janos. No date, but before 1933, when Viking published the first edition. Sixty-four pencil numbered pages. The title page and contents leaf are drawn in crayon and pencil. The first full opening, pages 4 and 5, is quite fully rendered in pencil, crayon, and watercolor. The next recto (page 7) has a very accomplished pencil sketch for an illustration; the book is otherwise blank. Two rough sketches are laid in
by Petersham, Maud and Miska
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New York, 1933. 1 vols. 10-1/4 inches (26 cm). Plain red cloth spine, front cover with watercolor drawing incorporating the lettering, front endpapers painted in watercolor. Minor staining to front cover. 1 vols. 10-1/4 inches (26 cm). From the husband and wife team who would eventually win the Caldecott Medal in 1946 for The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. Provenance: Selma Lanes (author of The Art of Maurice Sendak, etc.)
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Format/Binding 1 vols. 10-1/4 inches (26 cm)
- Book Condition Used - Plain red cloth spine, front cover with watercolor drawing incorporating the lettering, front endpapers painted in watercolor. M
- Quantity Available 1
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1933
- Keywords Children's Books | Art