Look Out Yonder by Valenti Angelo - First Edition 1943, Illustrated by Author

Valenti Angelo

Published by The Viking Press, 1943

About this Item

Angelo, Valenti. Look Out Yonder. New York: The Viking Press, 1943. First Edition (September 1943). Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, issued concurrently in Canada by Macmillan Company of Canada. Illustrated throughout and with jacket art, endpapers, and cover design by the author. Charming mid-century children's novel by celebrated artist and illustrator Valenti Angelo (1897-1982), set along a riverside levee where young Willie Norton dreams of life beyond his family's small shack. Drawing on Angelo's Tuscan heritage and his adopted California landscapes, the story blends American pastoral realism with the lyric simplicity of a fable. Angelo's pen-and-ink drawings. graceful, rhythmic, and rooted in the fine-press tradition of his Grabhorn Press years enliven every page. Condition: Book Very Good plus; jacket Very Good. Terracotta cloth clean and bright with crisp black vignette of boy and dog beneath a tree. Pages clean, tight, and lightly toned from wartime paper. Endpapers illustrated in green with pastoral landscape scene. Dust jacket complete and unclipped ($2.00), with only mild wear at spine ends, a short closed tear at crown, and faint toning to rear panel; vivid yellow background and multicolor vignette remain sharp. An attractive, well-preserved copy of this 1943 Viking juvenile title. Edition Details: First Edition, first printing, September 1943, with statement present on copyright page; produced under War Production Board conservation orders. Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) was an Italian-American illustrator, printer, and author whose career bridged the fine-press movement and mid-century trade publishing. A self-taught artist who emigrated from Tuscany to California in 1905, he became associated with San Francisco's Grabhorn Press and illustrated more than 250 books, celebrated for their hand-tooled linocuts and warm, human subjects. His own novels - Nino, Golden Gate, Paradise Valley, and Look Out Yonder, reflect his deep empathy for immigrant and working-class life and his eye for the spiritual beauty of ordinary people.

Seller Inventory # F.ANG.1943.1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Look Out Yonder by Valenti Angelo - First Edition 1943, Illustrated by Author
• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication Date: 1943
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction