First printing of this award-winning book by father and son. Winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book award. FINE in a FINE dust jacket; perfectly fresh and crisp. SIGNED by both Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers. Seller Inventory # 91082104
Synopsis: The blues aren't all sad. There's joy in the blues as well as heartbreak. Love discovered. Love lost. Love just around the corner.
In this beautiful tribute to the poetry and art of the blues, renowned author Walter Dean Myers collaborates with his son, award-winning illustrator Christopher Myers, in a true masterpiece of picture book creation filled with struggle, grief, hope, joy, and love. Each original blues-style verse on a page calls out a response from the artist in striking tones of brown, black, white, and blue. Together, father and son weave an enchanting story of the creation of the blues through the experiences of African Americans from the end of slavery through the beginning of the civil rights movement. This book is for older children who love music and their parents who will appreciate the layered sophistication of the striking artwork and interplay between art and text. Includes an author's note explaining the birth and development of the blues, a timeline of blues milestones, and an explanatory glossary of terms in the blues. Together this content deepens the appreciation for the blues as a truly original art form.Review: ★ "A powerful union of text and image transmutes itself into a work of art-and it explains what the blues is, besides. Walter Dean Myers takes fragments of blues songs and creates an arc of poetry with them. His son, Christopher, using only brown paper, blue ink, and white paint, creates a visual counterpoint to the words that sometimes reflects them and other times goes to a different but related place." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
★ "In this collection of original poems, Myers's blues extend themselves to themes of racism, loneliness, slavery, and just plain hard luck. Christopher Myers's illustrations are impressively composed and imaginatively varied in design. You'll have to make up the tunes, but Myers père et fils are so deeply immersed in the rhythms and idioms of the blues that the music will seem to come right out of you in response." --The Horn Book, Starred Review
Title: Blues Journey *Signed 1st
Publisher: Holiday House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Myers, Christopher
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author and Illustrat
Edition: First Edition, Stated
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # USC-9780823416134
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Myers, Christopher (illustrator). First Edition. Unpaginated. Wide Format picture book. No additional printings listed on the copyright page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Z7. Seller Inventory # 008634
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Used Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a marked first edition with full number line or stated edition on copyright page. Dust Jacket is wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Dust Jacket is clean and intact, with minor edge and corner wear. Front and back covers have very slight edge and corner wear. Spine intact with no creasing or warping. Binding is tight and intact, pages clean and unmarked. In nice, but previously owned condition. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request. Inscribed and signed by author. Seller Inventory # 278343
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Christopher Myers (illustrator). 1st Edition. This collaboration between author-poet Walter Dean Myers and his artist son Christopher Myers is destined to become a classic of the storybook writing and illustration. This copy is in new condition,a first printing signed by BOTH on the title page with the bright dustjacket in clear, mylar protection. The 11.25"x 9" oblong book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for shipping. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001060