Marcia BROWN How, Hippo! 1969 & signed woodcut

November 23, 2021

Rare Books, Documents, Photos, and Artwork

Lot 196

Marcia BROWN How, Hippo! 1969 & signed woodcut

Estimate: $500 - $800

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Marcia BROWN. How, Hippo! [& original signed woodcut of an image that appears in the book]

Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com

Marcia BROWN (1918-2015, author and illustrator).

How, Hippo! New York: Charles Scribner’s sons, 1969. Small square quarto (9 3/8 x 8 3/4in; 237 x 223mm), [32]pp. Illustrated throughout in colors with images from woodcuts by Marcia Brown. Original light lime green cloth, dark blue decorative vignette to upper cover, title to spine, dust-jacket with a wrap-around design in colors. (Very slight discoloration to cloth, light toning and bumping to jacket [see images]). First edition.

[with:]

Marcie BROWN. An original two-color woodcut [‘”How! Hello” to another little hippo … making the long trek for food in the blue night’], a version of the image reproduced as a double-page spread on pp. [16-17] of ‘How, Hippo!’. [USA: 1969?] Two-color woodcut (image-size: 9 ¼ x 19in; 235 x 482mm), signed in pencil beneath the image ‘Marcia Brown’ and inscribed ‘How, Demmie! Happy Birthday – affectionately Marcia’. Matted, framed and glazed (frame size: 15 ½ x 25in; 394 x 635mm). (Some creasing [see images]). Provenance: Demetra J. Silides (bequeathed to); Jean Krulis (1937-2020, purchased from the estate).

Original signed and inscribed woodcut from “one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature”, with an excellent copy of the book in which a version of the same image appears.

Artwork by Marcia Brown seems to be quite rare on the market.

”Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children’s books. She has won three annual Caldecott Medals … and six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, and the … Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1992 for her career contribution to children's literature. Many of her titles have been published in translation, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish and Xhosa-Bantu editions. Brown is known as one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature.”

‘As a result of her work in children's illustrations Brown has become well known for her woodcut prints. Her woodcut prints have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Peridot Gallery, the Hacker Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Carnegie Institute, and the Philadelphia Print Club. Her prints and art works are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Mazza Gallery, Findlay, Ohio, the deGrummond Collection, the University of Southern Mississippi, the Kerland Collection of the University of Minnesota, and in many private collections.’ (https://archives.albany.edu/description/catalog/mss005)

See Bader p.313-322 for Marcia Brown.

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