Shepherd by Gilbert Riswold (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Riswold, Gilbert (illustrator). 1st Edition. Reprint of the 1929 edition. Prentice-Hall, 1967. Hard Cover in illustrated dust jacket. Dust Jacket in clear plastic, protective cover glued to boards. Original price inside dj flap. An Ex-Library copy with commonly found imperfections such as stickers, stamps, library label on end-sheet. Pages overall clean, no writing, no marks, tightly bound. Pictures by Gilbert Riswold. A nice copy. (see photos) (305-O).

Second Printing; Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Gilbert Riswold (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Color; 9 1/4 x 8 3/4"; Unpaginated pages; Oblong shaped hard cover has rust colored spine with blue lettering. Light scuffing, rubbing to boards. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing, sunning, bumping, missing a small piece at bottom of front. Illustrated end papers. 1967 reprint of the original 1929 edition. Pages not numbered; 32 pages. Beautifully illustrated color pictures. One shepherd stays to comfort and protect his flock when all the others go to Bethlehem to celebrate Christ's birth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gilbert Riswold (illustrator). Second impression. Heywood Broun (1888-1939) was a journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist whose unusual Christmas story (sometimes called "The Shepherd's Whisper") was first published in a limited edition in 1926. It tells the story of Amos, a shepherd who declined to go with the other shepherds to see the newborn Christ child in the manger, choosing to stay behind to tend his flock. Here, the tale gets an equally unusual artistic interpretation from illustrator Gilbert Riswold (who, spookily enough considering that Heywod Broun had a son called Heywood Broun, was the son of Gilbert Riswold, a sculptor). Anyway, the pictures are quite striking; monotone apart from Amos's crook which is picked out in gold ink. Riswold's note at the end of the book explains that he has made the illustrations look like they were done on a parchment scroll in the "hope of bringing the reader closer to the ancient setting of the story". Riswold has signed the title page with "Gil" written across his printed name. While the book is a very good copy indeed, marred only by a name on the endpaper obliterated with marker, and minor wear to spine ends, the price-clipped dust jacket is pretty ragged. There's wear to edges with nicks, chips and larger pieces missing from back panel. Looks OK behind the acetate. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Gilbert Riswold (illustrator). First Thus. First edition with these illustrations. Book is old store stock in unread condition.