daugherty sonia james (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Daugherty, James (illustrator). 152 pages, fourth printing. Ex-library marks, some wear and yellowing; missing the front flyleaf; a reading copy. No jacket. Features William Bradford, Roger Williams, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln. Illustrator: Daugherty, James. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 231722.

First edition. Orig. pictorial cloth. Ownership inscription in child's hand on front pastedown, otherwise a very near fine copy, lacking dust jacket. A peasant woman learns that kindness is the best approach with her husband's donkey. Slavic (Russian or Ukrainian) setting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by James Daugherty (illustrator). First Edition. [a bit of wear to lower extremities and top of spine, one-time owner's mostly-erased (but still readable) name and address on ffep; jacket shows just a little wear at spine ends, slight age-toning]. (pen and ink drawings) "Dramatic stories," for juvenile readers, of "ten women who left their stamp on America [and] whose personal stature adds to our heritage." They are: Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell, and Eleanor Roosevelt. This was a companion/follow-up to the same husband-wife author-illustrator team's book "Ten Brave Men: Makers of the American Way," published two years earlier. James Daugherty, an accomplished modernist painter, muralist, and magazine illustrator, was also one of America's foremost book illustrators/authors, with a total of 103 books to his credit, eight of which were written by Sonia.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by James Daugherty (illustrator). First Edition. [light staining to edges of text block, otherwise a good sound copy with only modest shelfwear; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, lightly browned at the spine, with tiny bits of paper loss at most corners and the spine ends]. (pen & ink chapter-head drawings) INSCRIBED ("Irma -- a charming / hostess and a kind friend") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The story of a Russian girl whose family flees the Russian revolution and comes to New York. "The tale of sixteen-year-old Masha's adjustment to America, her battle to become an artist and her gradual realization of herself as a person, is one of the most vivid and unusual books for older girls that we have read," sez the jacket blurb. Two earlier books, "Mashinka's Secret" (1932) and "The Broken Song" (1934), chronicled the experiences of Masha and her family in Russia during the period immediately preceding the Revolution; the present volume is the scarcest of the three. The author's husband, a noted artist in his own right, often illustrated her books. While it may not surprise you (as it didn't surprise me) to learn that Mrs. Daugherty was of Russian origin herself (maiden name, Sonia Medvedeva), the fact that she and James were married in 1913 would seem to rule out the idea that these books are primarily autobiographical, at least as far as the "fleeing the Revolution" parts are concerned. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." Signed by Author.