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All Embarrassed
William Steig
All Embarrassed
1944 Duell Sloan & Pearce
First Edition
8vo Hard Cover in Unclipped Dust Jacket
VG VG IOBA Book Grading Standards; Light Staining to Back Cover, Tight Sound Binding, Clean Complete Unmarked Text. Light Age Toning, Light Creasing and Light Edge Wear to Unclipped Dust Jacket.
All Embarrassed
1944 Duell Sloan & Pearce
First Edition
8vo Hard Cover in Unclipped Dust Jacket
VG VG IOBA Book Grading Standards; Light Staining to Back Cover, Tight Sound Binding, Clean Complete Unmarked Text. Light Age Toning, Light Creasing and Light Edge Wear to Unclipped Dust Jacket.
101 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1944
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About the author
William Steig
140 books433 followersWilliam Steig was born in New York City in 1907. In a family where every member was involved in the arts, it was not surprising that Steig became an artist.
He published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968, embarking on a new and very different career.
Steig's books reflect his conviction that children want the security of a devoted family and friends. When Sylvester, Farmer Palmer, Abel, Pearl, Gorky, Solomon, and Irene eventually get home, their families are all waiting, and beginning with Amos & Boris, friendship is celebrated in story after story.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/willia...
He published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968, embarking on a new and very different career.
Steig's books reflect his conviction that children want the security of a devoted family and friends. When Sylvester, Farmer Palmer, Abel, Pearl, Gorky, Solomon, and Irene eventually get home, their families are all waiting, and beginning with Amos & Boris, friendship is celebrated in story after story.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/willia...
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May 15, 2020
1944 first edition. Follow-up to The Lonely Ones.
Steig prefaces this collection of drawings with this: "The title of every drawing in this book is EMBARRASSMENT, Other titles can be regarded as subtitles."
This is not exactly true. There are some pages that are purely art. There's a good deal of cartooning for it's own sake in here, beautifully abstract stuff. He'd been paying a lot of attention to Picasso.
Those pages of clowns, they don't seem so embarrassed.
Based on the pencil marks at the front, I paid $15 for it. Based on the pen marks, it was a 1944 birthday gift with lots of love, from someone named "Bete"? Or, Beto, but they can't do an o? Maybe it's "Bette", without that ostentatious, superfluous second t?
I don't know why I have two copies, though. Maybe one was part of lot on eBay. Sometimes I do the math, and say "what they hell, so I have an extra copy, at that price, it's still a steal. I can always give it to someone." And I usually do.
Steig prefaces this collection of drawings with this: "The title of every drawing in this book is EMBARRASSMENT, Other titles can be regarded as subtitles."
This is not exactly true. There are some pages that are purely art. There's a good deal of cartooning for it's own sake in here, beautifully abstract stuff. He'd been paying a lot of attention to Picasso.
Those pages of clowns, they don't seem so embarrassed.
Based on the pencil marks at the front, I paid $15 for it. Based on the pen marks, it was a 1944 birthday gift with lots of love, from someone named "Bete"? Or, Beto, but they can't do an o? Maybe it's "Bette", without that ostentatious, superfluous second t?
I don't know why I have two copies, though. Maybe one was part of lot on eBay. Sometimes I do the math, and say "what they hell, so I have an extra copy, at that price, it's still a steal. I can always give it to someone." And I usually do.
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