Illustrated rogers gregory (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. A look at life on the streets of a big city, dedicated to the "largely unsung, mostly unseen workers for young people in need." Shane "heads home past broken windows, graffiti-scribbled walls, dilapidated fences, and alleys strewn with trash. On the way, he avoids a group of tough boys and encounters a fierce dog, talking all the while to the stray kitten snuggled safely inside his jacket. Finally he crawls through a jagged hole in a chainlink fence and into the cozy, sheltered corner of an alley that he calls home. . Soft, double-page, charcoal-pencil drawings [by Gregory Rogers] in muted shades of blue, brown, gray, and terra cotta on black backgrounds sharply contrast the brightness of signs, buildings, and rush-hour traffic with the secluded loneliness of dark alleys." (School Library Journal). A powerful collaboration between this Australian author and award-winning Australian illustrator. Large format unpaginated Fine in fine dust jacket.…

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the illustrator. Original pictorial boards. without dustwrapper, as issued. Illustrated throughout in colour by Gregory Rogers. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the spine slightly faded, the head of the spine very lightly bumped. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Inscribed by Gregory Rogers in blue ink on the title page "For / Kay, / with my very best wishes, / Greg / Rogers". A picture book about a homeless young boy who discovers and protects a stray kitten, written by the Centenary Medal winning Australian author Libby Hathorn. Rogers won the Kate Greenaway Medal for his illustrations for this book, making him the first Australian to do so. Winner of the Parents' Choice Award in the USA. First published in Australia in 1994 by Random House. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…