Description
Very Good dust jacket is blue paper with illustration of man and woman. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The Fine binding is blue cloth over boards, silver lettering on the spine. Black-and-white illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 7.8″ tall x 5.9″ wide.
First Edition; First Printing. First printing with the “1” present in the number line on the copyright page.
About the book from the dust jacket)
Written in 1879 and acknowledged by critics everywhere as a masterpiece of short fantasy, The Day Boy and the Night Girl is the classic tale of evil and innocence by the writer whose name is synonymous with the finest in imaginative fiction. A contemporary and friend of Lewis Carroll, MacDonald came to have a profound influence on entire generations of writers, including C.S. Lewis, who said his own imagination had been “baptized’ in the intoxicating waters of MacDonald’s genius.
With beautifully restrained and evocative illustrations by two-time Caldecott Medal recipient Nonny Hogrogian, this unique edition of The Day Boy and the Night Girl brings to a new generation of readers the enchanting and immortal brilliance of George MacDonald. GEORGE MACDONALD was born in Scotland in 1824 and was for a brief time a minister before turning his energies full-time to writing. A friend and contemporary of Lewis Carroll, MacDonald is an acknowledged master of fantasy. The author of more than twenty books, he is perhaps best remembered for his brilliant and imaginative stories, including
About the illustratotr (from the dust jacket)
NONNY HOGROGIAN has won the Caldecott Medal twice, first for Always Room for One More and again for One Fine Day. Also well known for her delightful retellings of traditional tales, including The Glass Mountain, from the Brothers Grimm, and Noah’s Ark. Her most recent book is The Cat Who Loved to Sing, a story inspired by an Armenian folk tale. She was born in New York City and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, writer and poet David Khefdian.
