Buy this book on-line REEVES,JAMES: : JAMES REEVES Complete Poems for ChildrenLONDON.HEINEMANN,1973. ISBN 043495893X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG-.Owner name ffe price-clipped dw/dj but with publishers price sticker still in situ.
Pictorial colour artwork dw/dj by Edward Ardizzone.Top+bottom edges dw/dj slight chipping with some minimal loss,closed tears and some slight rubbing too.Grey paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip.Fore-edges slightly aged but contents bright and clean.8vo,195pp includes b/w line illus also by Edward Ardizzone throughout text,index each of titles and first lines.
This volume contains all the poems James Reeves has written for children over the past quarter century (1973), including the
contents of such perennially favourite books as The Wandering Moon, The Blackbird
in the Lilac and Ragged Robin.Many of the old favourite Ardizzone drawings which originally accompanied these poems, and some new ones he has drawn for this book, add their own visual dimension and are an indispensable accompaniment to Reeve's work.
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,1900-1979, worked as Edward Ardizzone.Born in Haiphong, China, the son of an employee of the Eastern Telegrah Company, the eldest of five children.He lived in the Far East until he was five and then moved with his family to England.Ardizzone lived
in Ipswich until he was 14, 'and it was here', he wrote, 'that I learnt to know and love the little coastal steamers that I have drawn so often in the TIM books.' He attended evening classes in life drawing given by Bernard Meninsky at Westminster School of Art, while employed as a statistical clerk in London(1916-26).
He worked freelance as an illustrator from 1926,achieving widespread recognition
with his first children's book 'Little Tim
and the Brave Sea Captain(1936), the first
of the famous TIM books.Served in the Royal Artillery(1939-40);Official War Artist(1940-45), noted for his war diaries.Taught illustration at Camberwell School of Art(1948-52).Worked for UNESCO in India(1952-53).Part-time tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Etching (1953-61).Ardizzone worked in watercolour,
pen and ink, pencil and lithograph as a painter, printmaker, greetings card designer and illustrator of over 170 books, many of them his own.He was awarded
the Kate Greenaway Medal(1956) for 'Tim All Alone' and the Carnegie Medal(1955) and Hans Christian Andersen Medal(1956) with 'The Little Bookroom'.He particularly
enjoyed illustrating poetry.He worked mainly from memory,early developing a freely drawn and unmistakable style that changed very little during the course of his long career.He acknowledged the influence of Bernard Meninsky on his work,
and also the 19thC draughtsmen Daumier, Dore and Caldecott.His brother-in-law Gabriel White considered 'perhaps no artist since Randolph Caldecott has captured so easily the qualities essential in successful illustration for a child'.Ardizzone's are bold and clear and tell the tale in the simplest lines and colours.Ardizzone was awarded the CBE (UK honour) in 1971.In 1973,a retrospective of his work was held at the V & A Museum in London. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of REEVES,JAMES: : JAMES REEVES Complete Poems for Children. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, used books, livres illustrées, livres anciens and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |