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Sarg, Tony - Tony Sarg\'s Book for Children
From Six to Sixty
Illustrated by the Author
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1924, 1st. edition
(This is the English edition, printed in the USA)
Hardcover. Half dark green cloth and pictorial cardboard-covered boards, with a small window in the front cover through which one can view scenes which can be rotated using a mounted wheel on the verso of the front cover
22.2 x 28,5 cm.
No pagination (about 130 pages, printed on thick paper)
VERY GOOD
Corners very slightly bumped. Internally fine and bright.
A delightful, beautifully illustrated children\'s book with hundreds of color drawings, by a noted children\'s book author and illustrator.
Every page is chock full of great, brightly colored lithographs as well as full page and double page spreads in Sarg\'s unique style - calligraphic text.
The text humorously relates events in history seen through Sarg\'s eyes (featuring Napoleon, Demosthenes etc.). The first story is Mary and Freckles in Nantucket.
There is a moveable wheel inside the front cover that simultaneously changes the face on the picture of the man on the endpaper and changes the scene in die-cut hole in the cover.
Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children\'s Literature: Tony Sarg (1880 -- 1942), American puppeteer, illustrator, and creator of humorous books. Sarg was born in Guatemala, where his German father owned sugar and coffee plantations.
Shipping fee (the Netherlands: € 4,50; Europe: € 11,99) to be paid by buyer
From Six to Sixty
Illustrated by the Author
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1924, 1st. edition
(This is the English edition, printed in the USA)
Hardcover. Half dark green cloth and pictorial cardboard-covered boards, with a small window in the front cover through which one can view scenes which can be rotated using a mounted wheel on the verso of the front cover
22.2 x 28,5 cm.
No pagination (about 130 pages, printed on thick paper)
VERY GOOD
Corners very slightly bumped. Internally fine and bright.
A delightful, beautifully illustrated children\'s book with hundreds of color drawings, by a noted children\'s book author and illustrator.
Every page is chock full of great, brightly colored lithographs as well as full page and double page spreads in Sarg\'s unique style - calligraphic text.
The text humorously relates events in history seen through Sarg\'s eyes (featuring Napoleon, Demosthenes etc.). The first story is Mary and Freckles in Nantucket.
There is a moveable wheel inside the front cover that simultaneously changes the face on the picture of the man on the endpaper and changes the scene in die-cut hole in the cover.
Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children\'s Literature: Tony Sarg (1880 -- 1942), American puppeteer, illustrator, and creator of humorous books. Sarg was born in Guatemala, where his German father owned sugar and coffee plantations.
Shipping fee (the Netherlands: € 4,50; Europe: € 11,99) to be paid by buyer