THE MAGIC CARPET AND OTHER TALES. RETOLD BY ELLEN DOUGLAS WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF WALTER ANDERSON.
Language: English
Published by Jackson, MS and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1987., 1987
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page) SIGNED BY ELLEN DOUGLAS. xiv, 186 pages. Hardcover: H 31.25cm x L 19.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; dj presented in an older mylar Gaylord protector. Light lilac colored cloth. Light vertical impression to front free endpaper; interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket with Douglas' signature on the title page. Features a selection of twenty tales and myths including "The Magic Carpet," "Sindbad and the Roc," "Rapunzel," "The Six Swans," "Thumbelina," "The Sleeping Beauty," "Beauty and the Beast," "Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "Jack the Giant Killer," "Cupid and Psyche," "Androcles and the Lion," etc. all accompanied by illustrations from linoleum block prints designed in the 1940s by Ocean Springs, Mississippi artist Walter Inglis Anderson and colored by his niece Adele Anderson Lawton. Laid-in is a sheet from Mississippi Public Broadcasting September 1989 issue "The ETV Times & PRM Report" promoting the book and the related public television production. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {MS Shelf #5} ISBN 0878053271.…
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- Title
- THE MAGIC CARPET AND OTHER TALES. RETOLD BY ELLEN DOUGLAS WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF WALTER ANDERSON.
- Author
- Douglas, Ellen (pseudonym of Josephine Ayres Haxton, 1921-2012). Walter Anderson [Walter Inglis Anderson], 1903-1965, and Adele Anderson Lawton (illustrators).
- Publisher
- Jackson, MS and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
- Publication year
- 1987
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0878053271
- ISBN 13
- 9780878053278
- Illustrator
- Anderson, Walter
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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The fabulous illustrations of Walter Anderson brought forth this brilliant retelling of twenty tales from world literature, a book first published in 1987 and now back into print at the demand of appreciators of Ellen Douglas's fiction and of Anderson's art. Here for a wide range of readers Douglas recounts fairy tales, classical stories, myths, and adventure stories that inspired Anderson to create these enchanting pictures.
Douglas's special gift for storytelling weaves an alluring spell that is intensified by twenty-four of Anderson's most spectacular works. These are reproduced in full color and are adapted from his linoleum block prints of tremendous size (18 in. x 6 ft.) and hand colored by his niece Adele Anderson Lawton.
This indeed is a document of art's power to excite the imagination. What is the elusive quality in narrative that draws out the illustrator's response? And the quality in illustration that compels the teller of stories to elucidate? Just as great tales piqued Anderson to create these fantastical pictures, his illustrations motivated Douglas to take them back to their source, the word. From the Brothers Grimm, Ovid, Malory, Burton, Perrault, and other great storytellers she has retold her refreshingly appealing versions of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, The Magic Carpet, The Fisherman and the Genie, Sinbad and the Roc, Rapunzel, The Six Swans, Thumbelina, The Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, The White Cat, Puss in Boots, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Bremen Town Musicians, Jack the Giant Killer, The Birth and Coronation of Arthur, Cupid and Psyche, Androcles and the Lion, Europa and the Bull, and The Golden Apples of the Hesperides. In recounting them anew she gives them fresh insights while retaining their eternal charm. Ellen Douglas is the award-winning author of five novels and a collection of stories. Among her books are Black Cloud, White Cloud, Apostles of Light (University Press of Mississippi), and Can't Quit You, Baby.
Walter Anderson (1903-1965) was the reclusive Mississippi Gulf Coast artist whose legacy of art has been celebrated in many exhibitions and in films and books.
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About the Author
Walter Anderson (1903-1965) lived in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he spent his lifetime recording the region's flora, fauna, life forces, light, and history of his native Gulf Coast. He is known today as mythmaker, local legend, mystic poet, painter, inveterate voyager, and, most of all, brilliant artist.
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