Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Stated sixteenth printing.īright dust jacket slightly rubbed on rear panel, with lower corner of front flap clipped. It enjoyed success in its day-due in large part to Rey’s talent at giving his animals “individuality as characters… informed by his precise knowledge of their anatomy” (Silvey, 554)-but it is most remembered now for its introduction of the mischievous minor character Curious George, who went on to star in his own beloved series of misadventures. 1989.”īased upon Hans’ newspaper cartoons of a giraffe, his and Margret Rey’s first picture book, Rafi et les 9 singes (1942) was published in England that same year as Raffy and the Nine Monkeys and in the United States under the present title. Rey,” with an additional inscription, “and, 20 years later, Margret Rey, Sept. Later printing of the American edition of the Reys’ first picture book, inscribed at length with an original color sketch of the title character, “To Nancy, Amy, and Jessica with all good wishes from H.A. Slim quarto, original pictorial red cloth, original dust jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, circa 1969. AND MARGRET REY, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR SKETCH AND THE 9 MONKEYS, INSCRIBED (TWO DECADES APART) BY H.A.
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