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So You Want to be President? - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by St. George, Judith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399234071
- ISBN 13
- 9780399234071
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Philomel Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399234071 . A charming first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, signed illustrator David Small directly on the title page. Mr. Small also added a drawing with Lincoln holding the Caldecott medal next to his signature; So You Want to be President? won the 2001 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations. This book is profusely illustrated and contains facts pertaining to the education, family, and prior occupations of every US president from George Washington to William J. Clinton; Color Illustrations; 4to; [6], 7-52, [1] pages; Signed by Illustrator .
Synopsis
Judith St. George lives in Connecticut. David Small grew up in Detroit, studied Art and English at Wayne State University and completed his graduate studies in art at Yale. He went on to teach drawing and printmaking at the college level for fourteen years, during which time his first book Eulalie and The Hopping Head was published. David no longer teaches but has continued illustrating. David has illustrated twenty-seven picture books, and has also provided the text for six of them. His Imogene’s Antlers has been featured for fifteen years on PBS’ “Reading Rainbow.” Fenwicks Suit presently is in production by Fox 2000 Four of David’s bestselling picture books were written by his wife, Sarah Stewart. Their book The Gardener was the recipient of 17 awards including the Christopher Medal and the 1998 Caldecott Honor Award. David’s books have been translated into six languages. He also has worked years as a freelance editorial artist, with his drawings appearing regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. His reviews of picture books appear frequently in The New York Times Book Review. Of his beginnings as an artist David has this to say: “Detroit is not where I would have lived given the choice as a child. Then, I would much rather have lived in Candy Land. But the fact is Detroit—a harsh, industrial—made art and music all the more sweet in my young life, more urgent and more of a necessity. Seen in that light, Detroit was the perfect place for me to grow up.” David Small and Sarah Stewart make their home in Michigan in an 1833 Greek Revival house on ten acres of land along the banks of the St. Joseph River. Their house is on the National Register of Historic Places, and their property marks the northern boundary of the Great Tallgrass Prairie.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29991
- Title
- So You Want to be President? - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- St. George, Judith
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by David Small
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399234071
- ISBN 13
- 9780399234071
- Publisher
- Philomel Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Awarded Books / Caldecott Medal;
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