The Story Of Noah's Ark por E. Boyd Smith - 1905

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Dustjacket as issued. . Disbound; text block laid in covers with some loose pages. All pages and illustrations present. Uncommon in first edition. God directs Noah, the only good man left on earth, to build an ark, so that his family and two of each species of animal may be saved when the great flood comes to destroy every other living thing. Elmer Boyd Smith (1860 – 1943) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and painter.Smith was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and studied art in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian from 1881 to 1884, and also with H. Lefort for several years. In the early 1900s he moved to Wilton, Connecticut, where he spent the remainder of his life. He illustrated more than seventy books for both adults and children, beginning with My Village in 1896, written while he was living in France. His first… Ler mais

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston, Ne: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1905. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905 (November 1905) Unpaginated. Illustrated boards with cloth backstrip, edges and corners worn, small losses and bookplate to FFEP, finger soil. Smith re-tells the biblical story of Noah's Ark with wit and humor, picturing his text in 26 full-page color plates. Bader compares his work to L. Leslie Brooke, Boutet de Monvel & Toulouse-Lautrec pgs. 14-15.. First Edition. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by E Boyd Smith. Oblong 4to.