A Visit to William Blake's Inn Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

Willard, Nancy; Provensen, Alice & Martin Provensen

ISBN 10: 0152938222 / ISBN 13: 9780152938222

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1981

About this Item

4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages; 1981 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Oversize HC/DJ 1st printing. Tan linen backstrip and brown paper covered boards. 1st Edition stated with complete HBJ letter line. No Caldecott label to the jacket. This example was bound with a reinforced binding designed for library use, but sold at retail. There is a dark star debossed to the rear board and printed to the back panel of the jacket, which is understood to signify a copy designated for sale to the library trade. The book is bright and tight; no marks. Dust jacket is price clipped front flap, has a small mild nick to the front flap fold, a 2" closed tear top edge front and a 1" closed tear top edge rear. Jacket is bright and clean with crisp edges. Handsome copy in the 1st state dust jacket. F/VG+.

Seller Inventory # 14096

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Visit to William Blake's Inn Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0152938222
• ISBN 13: 9780152938222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Provensen, Alice; Provensen, Martin
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern 1st editions
  • Children's Books :: Caldecott Winners
  • Children''s Books

About this title

Synopsis

Inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake’s imaginary inn and its unusual guests.

About the Authors

Nancy Willard has loved William Blake’s poetry from the day she first heard it. While writing the poems in this book, she built a six-foot model of the inn, decorating it with moons, suns, stars, and prints of Blake’s paintings. The model with its residents—the characters that appear in this volume—stands in her living room.

Nancy Willard published her first book when a high school senior—an inset in the Horn Book, which was called A Child’s Star. Formerly a lecturer in the English department at Vassar College, she is the author of a number of well-received children’s books, including Sailing to Cythera: And Other Anatole Stories and The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole, both winners of a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. 

Alice and Martin Provensen have been honored by the Art Books for Children Citation of the Brooklyn Museum, by the Gold Medal for illustration of the Society of Illustrators, by exhibitions at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and by being included on the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year list on nine occasions.

Alice and Martin Provensen have been honored by the Art Books for Children Citation of the Brooklyn Museum, by the Gold Medal for illustration of the Society of Illustrators, by exhibitions at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and by being included on the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year list on nine occasions.