1st ptg., 4to picture book, illustrated boards, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher and signed on a bookplate by the author and both illustrators. A tall tale about a 19th century fireman. Fine in fine, price-clipped dj, no previous owner's marks. Signed by author and artists.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

New York's Bravest (signed)

Publisher

Knopf, New York

Publication Date

2002

ISBN 10

0375821961

ISBN 13

9780375821967

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Johnson, Steve and Fancher, Lou

Edition

1st ed.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In the 1840s, there was a real vounteer firefighter named Mose Humphreys whose bravery was reknown throughout New York City. Plays about him began being performed on Broadway in 1848 and over the years his strength and heroics took on larger-than-life proportions, much like those of Paul Bunyan. Mary Pope Osborne has honed down the legends about him to a brief, dramatic, sometimes comical, but ultimately moving text of picture book length. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher’s stunning paintings capture this 8-foot-tall superhero rushing into burning buildings, saving babies and bankers, and wolfing down the feasts bestowed upon him by the grateful citizens of old New York–until the one big hotel fire after which he was never seen again. The author has included a historical note about the origins of this tall tale, and the book is dedicated to the 343 New York City firefighters who gave their lives to save others on September 11, 2001.

Mary Pope Osborne included a longer, different version of this legend in her distinguished collectionAmerican Tall Tales.

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Mary Pope Osborne included a longer, different version of this legend in her distinguished collectionAmerican Tall Tales.

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