Beschreibung
First edition thus. Alogonquin "Sunny Book" No. 103. Bright orange full-cloth, pictorial boards, moderate shelf wear, rub. Front cover features sharp impressed design of Honey Bear playing with infant, and bold titles. Pages very good, clean. Small antiquarian owner's label for children at front endpaper; name fields remain blank. Front and back endpapers w/red, orange, and green birds and foliage against black, starry night background. String-bind, good; hinges intact. Near very good illustrated rarity in orange cloth cover. In the best tradition of children's story books is this example w/richly colored, darkly quaint, and intriguing, painterly images printed in five colors from process plates on a fine grade of English book paper, while the cover, in eight colors, is done by lithograph. Written by the sister of Meredith Willson (actor) and illustrated by the sister of Frank Lloyd Wright (architect), author Tom Wolfe has called it one of the books which made him resolve to become a writer (even before he himself became a reader). So moved by its narrative about a baby kidnapped from a bassinet by a black bear and its "rollicking and rolling rhythm," Wolfe has slipped a phrase or two from Honey Bear into every book he's ever written. It is the Volland Publishing Company's ideal that books should make children happy and build character unconsciously and should contain nothing to cause fright, suggest fear, glorify mischief, excuse malice or condone cruelty. 6 1/16" x 7 1/2" design. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021934
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