esther weir (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Reading Copy. No Jacket. Friend, Esther (illustratore). 1st Edition. Green hardcover binidng with brown library tape on spine is an ex-library with usual stamps and marks. Binding corners are rubbed with some fray, front library pocket removed, lots of closed tears bottom of interior pages from many years of use, a few small chips on bottom page edges - book has been well-read; however, binidng is secure and tight and the story just as good as if new. Jimmy and Johnny are thrilled when they meet their grandfather for the first time because he told wonderful stories. At night though, when they hear loud mysterious noises, they are afraid until they discover the source. Scarce title. Size: Small 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall 1st Printing Language: ENG.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 4 Volume Set, RARE as Full Set. Extremely light rubbing to surfaces; mint Interior. Clean, no markings. Bright pages. Tight binding. 8vos. Vol I-IV: 83pp. 158pp. 151pp. & 133pp. B/W Photo Documented throughout. Collectible. B.R. Box 143.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ESTHER FRIEND (illustratore). 1st Edition. WITH POP-UP, SMALL CHIP TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE AREA, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork, drawings, and photographs ; red decorative cloth, no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933, GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON, (1916-2011) was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future, and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER, EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses (1842): "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades for ever, and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational School and became a member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. She worked as a commercial artist for International Shoe Company, and then turned to work as a watercolorist in St. Louis, Hilton Head, South Carolina and Vero Beach, Florida; the previous owner of the yearbook has added commentary and newspaper clippings of happenings to many of the senior class, some documenting the deaths of several in World War II, or by violence in St. Louis. Marriages of many of the women are recorded. Updated addresses and phone numbers of many former students are also added ; The yearbook has numerous articles written by students and show photographs and drawings in illustration. Subjects feature historical information about St. Louis, lists of artists, musicians with details of their lives and work are included ; all the artwork by the students reflects the then current Art Deco trends ; a very rare and historically important volume; and an exceedingly difficult-to-locate Saarinen collectible ; FINE. Book.