William Kurelek Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. /WK, illustrator. (illustrator). 1st Edition. CONDITION: Fine in Very Good jacket; in lightly soiled dw with slight edgewear & half inch tear, sticker shadow on front; unclipped 7.95. Picture Book hardback. Twenty scenes of a farm boy's life on the Canadian plains painted by Kurelek, with detailed descriptions opposite. A beautifully rendered book. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /WK, illustrator.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. /WK, illustrator. (illustrator). 1st Edition. CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good jacket; in dw w rubbed thin creases on spine, light wear and rubbing to spine ends; unclipped 19.95. Picture Book hardback. Thirty coloured paintings and sixteen black and white drawings document the disappearing traditional ways of Arctic life. Kurelek lived on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic while he researched this book. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /WK, illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B007IA6ZUY Oblong Hardback. Book is a tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Price clipped Dustjacket is in Good to Very Good condition with some edgewear and slight closed tears around its edges. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. A Ukrainian Folk Classic. Tightly bound in light blue cloth with the title and outline of a fox on the front cover. Author, Translator and Illustrator names and title in black on the spine. End papers are the color blue. The front cover is slightly bowed. Top edges of the covers are sun-toned. Otherwise, the book is clean with smooth unmarked pages. DJ in good condition with several closed tears on the top and bottom edges of front panel and numerous closed tears along the top edge of back panel. Small tears and chips at the spine ends. Unclipped original price inside front flap. Profusely illustrated with full page and in-text line drawings in black and white. 148 pp.

Condition: Very good. First edition, second publishing. [14], 303 pp. Ouarto. Hardcover, dark navy blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket, front panel white letters on a blue background, white spine with blue letters. Dust jacket is in very good condition, minor wears to the joints, spine, and edges. No tears, white parts slightly yellowed barely noticeable. Blue endpapers, all edges trimmed. Kurelek and Mitchell's signature on the title page, rare. Numerous black and white illustrations, eight full page colour illustrations. Internally clean and unmarked, tight binding. Very good to near fine condition. There are many copies of this book in the marketplace signed by the author, this one includes the artist's signature as well. This book features a collaborative effort by a Canadian-born author complemented by illustrations from a talented Canadian artist. William Ormond Mitchell (d. 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His "best-loved" novel is Who Has Seen the Wind (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies from the point of view of a small boy and sold almost a million copies in Canada. William Kurelek, (d. 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer. His work was influenced by his childhood on the prairies, his Ukrainian-Canadian roots, his struggles with mental illness, and his conversion to Roman Catholicism. (ref: Wikipedia).