A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects

UPDIKE, John

ISBN 10: 0394910591 / ISBN 13: 9780394910598

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995

About this Item

First edition. Photographs by David Updike. Thin quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to Herb Yellin: "for Herb Yellin a book he can read in a flash. Cheers, John Updike." Herb Yellin was the founder and publisher of Lord John Press and the most frequent of Updike's fine press collaborators. He named his press after noting that the list of authors he wanted to publish all shared the same first name, chief among them John Updike, his favorite. *Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu* became the press s first book in 1977 with 10 more to follow over the next 23 years. Yellin s friendship with Updike grew with each new limited edition benefitting his already enormous Updike collection, with Updike himself contributing copies of new editions of his books - often inscribed. In a 2010 interview with Yellin he noted that Updike ".liked that if anything ever happened to his own collection, he had my collection on the opposite side of the country." One of the author's children's books, seldom found signed, this is a notable association. Seller Inventory # 401456

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A dozen poems evoke the spirit of each month, from the experiences of children's lives

About the Author:

Trina Schart Hyman was born in 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the Philadelphia College of Art, the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and the School for Applied Art in Stockholm, Sweden. She has illustrated more than one hundred books for children. Her work has received the Caldecott Medal, Caldecott Honor awards, and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award. She lives in New Hampshire.