Rare Signed 1981 1st/1st HILARY KNIGHT'S THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS!!

Description: This listing is for a RARE SIGNED 1981 US 1st Edition/1st Printing of HILARY KNIGHT'STHE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS This great book has been SIGNED by HILARY KNIGHT on the illustrated front end page in black archival pen... He has signed with his signature - it reads "From Hilary Knight at Books of Wonder 2011" - there are no personal inscriptions or personalizations. (Please see pictures!) This was signed by Hilary Knight at the Books of Wonder Bookstore in New York City in 2011. I was very fortunate to be there and this was signed IN MY PRESENCE. Since then, this book has been sitting unopend and protected on a bookshelf in a smoke free and pet free home. Condition is as follows: NEAR FINE in a Near Fine Jacket. The cover is beautiful with sharp corners. This book is clean and bright - Overall it is in NF/NF collector's condition - it is a BEAUTY!! This is a 1981 Macmillan First Edition/First Printing - it has a complete number string of 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the back of the title page which is the correct indicator for a first printing for this title. This will be a wonderful addition to your collection - if you love Hilary Knight's genius and his Books, then this is a MUST HAVE!! Please take a look at my other auctions and in my store for other GREAT SIGNED books by Hilary Knight!! Winning Bidder has the choice of $4.50 for Media Mail Shipping (up to 7-14 days) or $13.85 for Priority Mail Shipping (2-5 days) - book will be carefully packed so it arrives in it's original condition. I GLADLY ship worldwide so please email for worldwide shipping costs. Payment must be received within 7 days of auction end - please email with any questions! Please check out the other items that I have up for auction and in my store! I am always listing Rare Books and Signed First Editions, as well as special Antiques found on my many travels across the US and Europe... Remember - this is coming from OREGON which is a NO SALES TAX STATE. If you buy from me, you will not be charged any sales tax by me or eBay on this listing!!(Remember, your own state may still charge you!) Thanks for looking! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ABOUT THE BOOK HILARY KNIGHT'S THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS What would you do with... 12 leaping lords, 22 dancing ladies, 30 fiddlers, 36 drummers, 40 milkmaids, 42 swans, 42 geese, 40 gold rings, 36 calling birds, 30 French hens, 22 turtle doves, and 12 partridges in pear trees? In this playful companion to Hilary Knight's The Owl and the Pussy-cat the presents never stop. When Bedelia Bear is faced with an accumulation of holiday offerings from her sweetheart, Benjamin, she turns her gifts into a very special event that everyone is able to share. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Readers can sing along to Hilary Knight's edition of The Twelve Days of Christmas (1981). A bear courts his beloved with a bevy of woodland gifts (the 12 frog "lords a-leaping" are especially noteworthy); a surprise awaits in a concluding foldout spread. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. About the Author Hilary Knight began his career as a book illustrator in collaboration with Kay Thompson, producing in quick succession Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime, and Eloise in Moscow, and then with Lee Bennett Hopkins, Side by Side and Happy Birthday. His own books include Where's Wallace? and the recent reissue of Hilary Knight's The Owl and the Pussy-cat, based on the poem by Edward Lear. He is a contributing artist for Vanity Fair magazine, living and working in New York City and Long Island, not far from Roslyn, where it all began. HILARY KNIGHT From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and others in the Eloise series. Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene, Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby! and No, No Nanette.Influences One of two sons of artist-writers Clayton Knight and Katharine Sturges Dodge, Hilary Knight was born on Long Island in Hempstead. His father illustrated aviation books, and his mother was a fashion and book illustrator. Living in Roslyn, New York as a child, Hilary was age six when he moved to Manhattan with his family. Knight attended the City and Country School (class of 1940) for elementary and middle school and Friends Seminary for high school. Knight recalled: “ As a child, I loved to look at a set of books that belonged to my mother. They were illustrated by Edmund Dulac in a romantic, wonderful, detailed manner. I know he has influenced my style. ” After study with George Grosz and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, Knight labored as a ship painter while serving in the navy from 1944 to 1946. Returning to New York, he studied architectural drafting (at Delahanty Institute), interior design, and theater design, working for one summer as an assistant designer at a theater in Ogunquit, Maine. He painted murals in private homes and entered the field of magazine illustration, starting with Mademoiselle in 1952, followed by House & Garden, Gourmet, McCalls, and Woman's Home Companion. His work as a humorous illustrator was strongly influenced by the British cartoonist Ronald Searle. Books In 1955, he collaborated with Kay Thompson to create the whimsical black, white and, pink look of Eloise. Knight says that the image of Eloise was based on a 1930s painting by his mother Katherine Sturges Dodge.[1] The live CBS television adaptation on Playhouse 90 (1956) with Evelyn Rudie as Eloise received such negative reviews that Kay Thompson vowed never to allow another film or TV adaptation. Three book sequels followed: Eloise in Paris (1957), Eloise at Christmastime (1958) and Eloise in Moscow (1959). Thompson and Knight teamed to create another sequel, Eloise Takes a Bawth, working with children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom. That title was announced in the Harper Books for Boys and Girls fall 1964 catalog, but in the mid-1960s, Thompson removed the three Eloise sequels from print and did not allow Eloise Takes a Bawth to be published. It was an action that deprived her collaborator of income for decades (a situation that changed with Thompson's death in 1998). In Salon, Amy Benfer speculated on Thompson's motives in "Will the real Eloise please stand up?" (June 1, 1999): “ Kay Thompson got sick of us. Our initial admiration—a mass consumption of all things Eloise—was viewed as imitation and she did not consider it a form of flattery. Adults and children flooded the Plaza, all insisting that they were Eloise.... I think she became jealous. So does Hilary Knight, Thompson's illustrator and collaborator. His pink-splashed black and white drawings of the child Maurice Sendak called, "that brazen loose-limbed delicious little-girl monster" provide the punch line to Thompson's allusive, scatting prose. Knight's contribution to a 1996 profile of Thompson in Vanity Fair is an illustration that shows Thompson kicking the chair out from under Eloise to scrawl "I am Eloise" in lipstick on the vanity mirror in the Plaza's powder room. Knight's illustration may seem a little tawdry. But then again, Knight himself got into something of a tangle with Ms. Thompson over the ownership of Eloise. Their professional relationship effectively ended when Thompson pulled from publication a nearly completed manuscript of yet another sequel; this one was entitled Eloise Takes a Bawth. In later years, Thompson refused to return Knight's phone calls. Kay Thompson's sense of possession was so strong that she became unwilling to share Eloise, even with the person who literally animated the child in her head. ” Eloise Takes a Bawth was finally published in 2002. Knight recalled: “ Kay and I were like parents to Eloise. We decided that we'd never make her older than six, and that we'd always keep the parents in the background. When you really study the book, you see that Eloise is somewhat wistful. And I guess my job now is to continue what Kay might have thought she was doing when she pulled the books in the first place—to protect Eloise. ” Knight also illustrated most of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books. Other publications with Knight illustrations include Good Housekeeping and the children's magazine Cricket. In addition to creating children's picture books—among them, in collaboration with poet Margaret Fishback, A Child's Book of Natural History (USA: Platt & Monk, 1969), a revision and extension of A Child's Primer of Natural History by Oliver Herford—Knight has illustrated for other genres, such as Peg Bracken's The I Hate to Cook Book. The roll call of artists Knight admires includes Ludwig Bemelmans, Joseph Hirsch, Leo Lionni, Robert Vickrey, and Garth Williams. His 1964 book "Where's Wallace", featuring an orangutan that kept escaping from the zoo to visit different places such as a circus, museum, department store, beach etc and who had to be located in each of the books panoramic pictures, anticipated Where's Waldo? by more than 20 years. Galleries Over the decades, Knight maintained an apartment in midtown Manhattan, which also served as his studio and library. Here, he adds to his collection of books, sheet music, programs, and soundtrack and cast recordings. He is represented by two galleries—the Giraffics Gallery (East Hampton, New York) and Every Picture Tells a Story (Santa Monica, California). In other media The 2015 HBO documentary, It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, chronicles Knight's work on Eloise, personal life, and tumultuous relationship with Kay Thompson. WorksThe Circus Is Coming, 1947Angels and Berries and Candy Canes, 1963Christmas Stocking Story, 1963Firefly in a Fir Tree, 1963Christmas in a Nutshell Library, 1963The Night Before Christmas, 1963Where's Wallace?, 1964Matt's Mitt, 1976That Makes Me Mad, 1976Hilary Knight's Cinderella, 1978The Circus is Coming, 1978The Twelve Days of Christmas, 1981The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (by Edward Lear), 1983The Best Little Monkeys in the World, 1987Side by Side: Poems To Read Together (verse compilation), 1988The Beauty and the Beast, 1990Sunday Morning, 1992Happy Birthday (verse compilation), 1993The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Treasury, 1995Eloise Takes a Bawth, 2002A Christmas Stocking Story, 2003Eloise: The Absolutely Essential, 2005Hilary Knight: Drawn from Life, 2018Olive & Oliver: The Formative Years, 2019 Keywords: Pop Ups & Movables - Sabuda Reinhart Popup, Popups, Pop Up, Pop Ups, Pop-up, Pop-ups, Animated, Moveable, Movable, Book, Caldecott, Newbery, Newberry, Children's Picture Book Children's & Young Adult, Signed, 1st Ed. 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Location: Portland, Oregon

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