NORMAN ROCKWELL: MY ADVENTURES AS AN ILLUSTRATOR

Rockwell, Norman, as Told to Thomas Rockwell (SIGNED by NORMAN ROCKWELL, Flatsigned, on first free page)

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1960

Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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(SIGNED by NORMAN ROCKWELL; Flatsigned, on first free page)- FIRST EDITION ('First Edition' STATED on Copyright Page)- Black cloth HARDCOVER, GOOD+/VERY GOOD-; light edgewear, hint of age toning to textblock. DUST JACKET, GOOD; light edgewear, a few small chips to head and heel of spine, light creases to edges, but UNCLIPPED, with ORIGINAL price ($4.95), and now wrapped in NEW archival protector. Decorated Endpapers. 436 pp. with Additional Section at rear: 'A PORTFOLIO' of Rockwell's COMMISSIONED artworks, book covers, and ADVERTISEMENTS in COLOR. ILLUSTRATED with B&W PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, and reproductions of some of the author's PAINTINGS. Rockwell is famous for the cover illustrations he created for The SATURDAY EVENING POST magazine over several decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Most of his surviving works are in public collections. Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as well as painting the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. A nice, illustrated FIRST EDITION biography of one of America's FAVORITE ARTISTS, NORMAN ROCKWELL, SIGNED by NORMAN ROCKWELL himself.

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NORMAN ROCKWELL: MY ADVENTURES AS AN ILLUSTRATOR

Publisher

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York

Publication Date

1960

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Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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