![]() ![]() Slight foxing to top outside page edges & faint musty smell. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding tight & square. It contains 17 of Gorey's classic, deliciously macabre, little books: "The Utter Zoo, The Blue Aspic, The Epileptic Bicycle, The Sopping Thursday, The Grand Passion, Les Passementeries Horrible, The Eclectic Abecedarium, L'Heure bleue, The Broken Spoke, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, The Glorious Nosebleed, The Loathsome Couple, The Green Beads, Les Urnes Utiles, The Stupid Joke, The Prune People," & "The Tuning Fork." Fully illustrated w/Gorey's macabre drawings, in black & white & in full color. The oversized hardcover book has decorative gray/white/black cloth-over-boards decorated with Gorey creatures. Martin's (NOTE: any Barnes & Noble edition is a reprint, not a first!). A true FIRST EDITION, first printing (with appropriate points) from 1983 from Congdon & Weed/St. ![]()
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Career in France Īfter studying under his father, in 1834, at age 19, he moved to Paris and became a student of Horace Vernet. His uncles Benjamin Barker, Jr., and Joseph Barker were also painters, as was his younger brother, John Joseph Barker, and his cousin, Marianne A. His grandfather, Benjamin Barker, was "a failed barrister…who painted horses with limited success" and eventually became "foreman and enamel painter at the japan works, Pontypool, expert at painting sporting and animal figures." His father was the prominent painter Thomas Barker, also called Barker of Bath. Thomas Jones Barker was born at Bath in 1815, into a family of artists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Jones Barker (19 April 1813 – 29 March 1882) was an English historical, military, and portrait painter. ![]() ![]() Through helping them, Jack finds the warmth he’s been yearning for, and realizes bringing joy to others can melt his own chill. 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Some of her best-known titles are Ellen Tebbits (1951), Henry and the Paper Route (1957), Runaway Ralph (1970), and Dear Mr. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are available in over twenty countries. ![]() Her stories and especially her characters, Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby, have proven popular with young readers. ![]() Her first book, Henry Huggins, was published in 1950. She worked for a short time as Children's Librarian in Yakima, Washington, before moving to California.Ĭleary began her writing career in her early thirties. in library science, was bestowed by the University of Washington in Seattle in 1939. in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley. Before long however Cleary had learned to love books, and as a child she spent a good deal of her time in the public library.Ĭleary attended Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, Ca. 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