1984, Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry W Longfellow, SIGNED BY ILLUS ERROL LE CAIN

Description: First American Edition, Printed in the UK, published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 1984. NICELY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ERROL LE CAIN. The signature has not been authenticated but is consistent with others easily found online. The book was gifted by "Garth Hogan". I can find a few individuals online with that name, but I can't ascertain which it might be in this case. The book was inscribed by Errol Le Cain to "Leigh". The hardback is in VERY GOOD CONDITION, with two wear issues to note. The glossy dust jacket with light edge wear, no tears or chips, the front flap is price-clipped and there is a crease on the bottom of the front flap. The other wear issue is that there appears to a binding crack in the interior of the book, in the adjacent blue pages shown in the listing photo (the pages lay flat and there is a thin strip on the right paper at the spine). Clean purple cloth boards, clear gilt spine titling, no edge or corner wear, faint bumping of corners. Unpaginated, looks to be about 30 BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED PAGES! On the author including HIS AWARD FOR THIS VERY BOOK!! from Wikipedia: "Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1988) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for "distinguished illustration in a book for children" for Hiawatha's Childhood (Faber and Faber)... ... Le Cain's first children's illustrations were published by Faber and Faber in a story he'd originally storyboarded for film, King Arthur's Sword (1968), which began a long association with Faber that continued to his death. His first book "made me aware of the scope and possibilities of children's book illustration, and now I am convinced this is the medium for me". Le Cain wrote 3 and illustrated 48 children's books during his lifetime, recognised for their richly decorative watercolours and masterful command of design and colour. His self-authored works were King Arthur's Sword (1968), The Cabbage Princess (1969) and The White Cat (1973). He was commended for the 1969, 1975, and 1978 Greenaway awards before winning the 1984 Medal and was commended again for 1987. The four commended books were The Cabbage Princess; Thorn Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty based on the version related by the Brothers Grimm; The Twelve Dancing Princesses, retold from the Brothers Grimm; and The Enchanter's Daughter by Antonia Barber." B64

Price: 250 USD

Location: Burtonsville, Maryland

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