Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Macaulay, David

ISBN 10: 0395521513 / ISBN 13: 9780395521519

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990

About this Item

An attractive first printing of the first edition in just about Fine condition in alike, pictorial dust-jacket. Gray boards with blind tooled illustration of a cow on front cover, black cloth spine with white lettering, red endpapers. Signed and dated June 29, 1991 by David Macaulay directly on the front end paper. Macaulay added a charming drawing with an added "crime pays" commentary; The winner the 1991 Caldecott medal, contains a puzzle, a game, and four seemingly unfolding stories with each double-page spread: Seeing Things, Problem Parents, A Waiting Game, and Udder Chaos. "Nothing can be intelligently or intelligibly recorded on a piece of paper unless true seeing occurs: first on the part of the person making the picture, and then on the part of the person reading it. " -David Macaulay; Color Illustrations; 4to ; [32] pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 29491

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395521513
• ISBN 13: 9780395521519
• Binding: 1/4 Cloth
• Illustrator: Illustrated by David Macaulay
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Awarded Books::Caldecott Medal
  • Exhibitions::ABAA Fair New York 2014
  • First Editions
  • Awarded Illustrators
  • Children's
  • Exhibitions::Florida Antiquarian Book Fair 2014
  • Exhibitions::Florida Antiquarian Book Fair 2013
  • Signed First Editions
  • By Year Of Issue::1990s

About this title

Synopsis

Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal 

Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?

About the Author

David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. Macaulay has garnered numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, given “to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations.” Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of his books. David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.