Book #29723

Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing

David Macaulay
Book #29723 Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing. David Macaulay.
Black And White - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
ISBN: 0395521513
Illustrator: Illustrated by David Macaulay

An attractive first printing of the first edition in Fine condition in just about Fine 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 7-18-08 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.

Price: $120.00

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