Gorky Rises

STEIG, WILLIAM

ISBN 10: 0374327521 / ISBN 13: 9780374327521

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux (FSG), New York, 1980

About this Item

4to picture book, unpaginated (approximately 32pp). Fully illustrated with color drawings. Hardcover, bound in original cloth with pictorial dustjacket. Book is in excellent condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, interior. No markings or signs of prior ownership. Very minor evidence of shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine. The d/j is unclipped and in very good condition with very slight wear to edges, now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper. A beautiful copy!

Seller Inventory # 013450

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gorky Rises
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (FSG), New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374327521
• ISBN 13: 9780374327521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's

About this title

Synopsis

Clutching the bottle of magic potion he has made, a young frog falls asleep and wakes to find himself floating in the sky.

About the Author

William Steig (1907-2003) was a cartoonist, illustrator and author of award-winning books for children, including Shrek!, on which the DreamWorks movies are based. Steig was born in New York City. Every member of his family was involved in the arts, and so it was no surprise when he decided to become an artist. He attended City College and the National Academy of Design. In 1930, Steig's work began appearing in The New Yorker, where his drawings have been a popular fixture ever since. He published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968.

In 1970, Steig received the Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. His books for children also include Dominic; The Real Thief; The Amazing Bone, a Caldecott Honor Book; Amos & Boris, a National Book Award finalist; and Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto, both Newbery Honor Books. Steig's books have also received the Christopher Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and the American Book Award. His European awards include the Premio di Letteratura per l'infanzia (Italy), the Silver Pencil Award (the Netherlands), and the Prix de la Fondation de France. On the basis of his entire body of work, Steig was selected as the 1982 U.S. candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration and subsequently as the 1988 U.S. candidate for Writing.

Stieg also published thirteen collections of drawings for adults, beginning with About People in 1939, and including The Lonely Ones, Male/Female, The Agony in the Kindergarten, and Our Miserable Life.

He died in Boston at the age of 95.