Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however.

By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.

First two dust jackets with light toning to spines and rubbing to folds ( Little Bear with small chip to spine foot) tape repairs to versos. A Kiss for Little Bear with small price sticker residue to rear panel of jacket.īooks clean and fine ( Little Bear's Visit with mild abrasion to front pastedown). Little Bear's Friend with old pencil code to front flap of dust jacket.

Little Bear in first-issue dust jacket with $2.50 price and code '40-80 / No. The New York Times named Father Bear Comes Home and A Kiss for Little Bear among the Best Illustrated Books of 19, respectively. She resolved to write her own book, and the result was Little Bear… Critics praised the Little Bear books not only for Minarik's prose, which combined crystalline accessibility with evocative warmth, but also for their tender, Victorian-inflected illustrations by a young artist named Maurice Sendak' ( New York Times). 'Casting about for titles that her students could read on their own, Minarik quickly ran up against the leaden wall of Dick and Jane, one of the few series then available for very young readers. Scarce first editions of Minarik’s beloved “Little Bear” series of readers, each book with charming illustrations by Maurice Sendak, in original dust jackets. Octavo, original half black cloth (two volumes), pictorial boards, original dust jackets. New York: Harper & Brothers Harper & Row, (1957-68). (SENDAK, Maurice) MINARIK, Else Holmelund. FIRST EDITIONS OF MINARIK’S LITTLE BEAR READERS, WONDERFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY MAURICE SENDAK

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