Description
No Jacket. The Very Good+ binding is illustrated paper over boards, front cover shows a boy and dog entering a cave, red and black lettering on the cover, red and black lettering on the spine, back cover is an Indian on a horse with a spier. Illustrated end papers, minor bumping to corners. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The fabulous, colorful illustrations by Mel Crawford can be found on every page. Book measures 12.7″ tall x 9.6″ wide. “A Big Golden Book” The binding is tight and pages are clean.
About the artist (from lambiek dot net)
Mel Crawford was a Canadian-American children’s book illustrator and comic artist, starting his work in the Canadian comic book industry at age sixteen. After moving to the USA, he drew horror and fantasy comics, but also stories with a variety of licensed characters, for Western Publishing. With writer Jerry Dumas, he created newspaper features like ‘Rabbits Rafferty’ (King Features Syndicate, 1977-1981) and ‘McCall of the Wild’ (Creators Syndicate, 1988-1990). As an illustrator, he is best remembered for his full color artwork for children’s books based on popular child-oriented media franchises. Talented in adapting several graphic styles, Crawford produced artwork with some of the most popular fictional characters of the 20th century, from Disney and Hanna-Barbera creations to Jim Henson’s ‘Muppets’.
