Shulevitz, Uri

Dawn

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974. Shulevitz, Uri. Oblong quarto, original blue cloth boards, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, striped endpapers. Light edgewear to dust jacket, especially at spine ends, small closed tear to front panel. Item #10038

First edition of Caldecott-winner Shulevitz's watercolor tribute to sunrise, based on a poem by the ancient Chinese poet Liu Chung-yuan. Shulevitz follows the early morning adventures of an old man and his grandson on a camping trip. "The oars screak and rattle, churning pools of foam. / Suddenly / the mountain and the lake are green." A lovely copy.

Price: $45.00