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D'AULAIRE, Ingri & Edgar Parin.

Item Number: 108543

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936.

Rare first edition of Ingri & Edgar D’Aulaire’s children’s classic. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with lithographs on stone in five colors and printed by offset lithography. Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire were the first 20th century artists to author and illustrate children’s books using earlier craftsman’s methods such as stone lithography. They won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association in 1940, recognizing the previous year’s “most distinguished American picture book for children.” Fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is price-clipped and in very good condition.

American children's book authors and illustrators Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire helped shape the golden age of children's books in mid-twentieth century America with elaborately illustrated titles which focused on American and Norwegian history and returned to earlier methods of printing illustrations. Many of the d'Aulaires' early books depict the scenery and folktales of Norway: Ola, Children of the Northlights, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Later their attention shifted to their adopted country and they produced books about American folk heroes such as Pocahontas, Benjamin Franklin, and Buffalo Bill.