NORMAN ROCKWELL: MY ADVENTURES AS AN ILLUSTRATOR

Rockwell, Norman, as Told to Thomas Rockwell (SIGNED by NORMAN ROCKWELL, Flatsigned, on first free page)

Edité par Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1960

A propos de cet article

(SIGNED by NORMAN ROCKWELL; Flatsigned, on first free page)- FIRST EDITION ('First Edition' STATED on Copyright Page)- Black cloth HARDCOVER, GOOD+/VERY GOOD-; light edgewear, hint of age toning to textblock. DUST JACKET, GOOD; light edgewear, a few small chips to head and heel of spine, light creases to edges, but UNCLIPPED, with ORIGINAL price ($4.95), and now wrapped in NEW archival protector. Decorated Endpapers. 436 pp. with Additional Section at rear: 'A PORTFOLIO' of Rockwell's COMMISSIONED artworks, book covers, and ADVERTISEMENTS in COLOR. ILLUSTRATED with B&W PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS, and reproductions of some of the author's PAINTINGS. Rockwell is famous for the cover illustrations he created for The SATURDAY EVENING POST magazine over several decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Most of his surviving works are in public collections. Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate more than 40 books, including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as well as painting the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. A nice, illustrated FIRST EDITION biography of one of America's FAVORITE ARTISTS, NORMAN ROCKWELL, SIGNED by NORMAN ROCKWELL himself.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: NORMAN ROCKWELL: MY ADVENTURES AS AN ILLUSTRATOR
• Éditeur: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York
• Date de parution: 1960
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Art, Illustrations
  • First Editions
  • Signed Books