The Cricket In Times Square

Edité par Farrar, Straus And Company/Ariel Books (1964), New York, 1964

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Seventh printing. Near fine in pictorial dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author with "Best Wishes" on the front flyleaf and there is a handwritten notecard presenting the book from the author's mother laid in "The locale of this story is really in front of our house-although now overgrown with trees and bushes. I hope your youngest will enjoy reading these adventures. greetings from Jerry's mother Sigrid J. Thompson 184 Mountain Road West Hartford Conn." Rare signed and with the additional background tory from the author's mother, whose printed card reads Mrs. Hartwell Greene Thompson. THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE, originally published in 1960 won a Newbery Honor Award in 1961, and is now considered one of the great post-war American classics for children. George Selden [Thompson] was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and attended the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut. He received his B.A. from Yale, where he was a member of the Elizabethan Club and contributed to the literary magazine. He spent three summer sessions at Columbia University and, after college, studied for a year in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. "His first two books were titles he was soon glad were out of print. As he wrote, "I recount these failures not, Lord knows, to boast, but because, if any unpublished or discouraged children's author reads this, I would like to say, as Noel Coward himself once said to me at a monster literary party where I was the least-known writer, "Press On". People often asked George Selden how he got the idea for THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE. "One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in the Times Square subway station. The story formed in my mind within minutes. An author is very thankful for minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequently." The storytelling of George Selden blends the marvelous with the commonplace realities of life. It was essential to him that his animal characters display true emotions and feelings with which readers can identify. The adventures of Chester Cricket and his friends are enhanced by the vibrant pen-and-ink drawings of Garth Williams, illustrator as well of both of E.B. White's classics CHARLOTTE'S WEB and STUART LITTLE. George Selden wrote more than fifteen books, as well as two plays. Mr. Selden lived in New York City until his death in December, 1989. He enjoyed music, archaeology, and J.R.R. Tolkien. His editor, Stephen Roxburgh, said, "Chester Cricket, Harry Cat, Tucker Mouse, and their friends celebrate the triumph of innocence and camaraderie over cynicism and selfishness. George Selden is gone, but his voice lives on in Chester Cricket's song.".…

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Titre
The Cricket In Times Square
Auteur
Selden, George and Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Éditeur
Farrar, Straus And Company/Ariel Books (1964), New York
Année de publication
1964
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Brick Walk Books is a general antiquarian book businesslocated in Orleans, Massachusetts. We feature literary first editions, art and architecture, photography, fine bindings and childrens books. Excellent inventory of prints, paintings and works on paper. We were prominently featured in Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's book, Slightly Chipped:Footnotes in Booklore, published by St. Martins Press in 1999.

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