Author: Shephard, Esther (Designed & Illustrated by Rockwell Kent)
Title: Paul Bunyan
Description: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth-covered boards with navy blue lettering to front board and spine. Twenty one tales featuring Paul Bunyan, many with Babe, his great blue ox. Twenty-two powerful, full-page illustrations by Rockwell Kent, including frontis. Absolutely some of the most elaborate and lovely dropcap initials at the beginnings of chapters. Dustjacket shows edgewear, chipping to spine caps, and has done a creditable job protecting the book itself. "As the legend goes, it took five huge storks to deliver the infant (already gigantic) Paul Bunyan to his parents in Bangor, Maine. When he grew older, one drag of the mighty lumberjack's massive ax created the Grand Canyon, while the giant footprints of his trusty companion, Babe the Blue Ox, filled with water and became Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Such frontier tall tales surely stretch reality, but was Paul Bunyan himself a real person? The true story of this iconic figure is a little more complicated. Historians believe Bunyan was based in large part on an actual lumberjack: Fabian Fournier, a French-Canadian timberman who moved south and got a job as foreman of a logging crew in Michigan after the Civil War. Six feet tall (at a time when the average man barely cleared five feet) with giant hands, Fournier went by the nickname "Saginaw Joe." He was rumored to have two complete sets of teeth, which he used to bite off hunks of wooden rails, and in his spare time enjoyed drinking and brawling. One November night in 1875, Fournier was murdered in the notoriously rowdy lumber town of Bay City, Michigan. His death, and the sensational trial of his alleged killer (who was acquitted), fueled tales of Saginaw Joe's rough-and-tumble life—and his lumbering prowess—in logging camps in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and beyond." (*from History daht calm). Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket .
Keywords: American Myths, Tall Tales, Mythology, Prototype Superheroes, Lumberjacks, Folk Heroes,
Title: Paul Bunyan
Description: New York, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth-covered boards with navy blue lettering to front board and spine. Twenty one tales featuring Paul Bunyan, many with Babe, his great blue ox. Twenty-two powerful, full-page illustrations by Rockwell Kent, including frontis. Absolutely some of the most elaborate and lovely dropcap initials at the beginnings of chapters. Dustjacket shows edgewear, chipping to spine caps, and has done a creditable job protecting the book itself. "As the legend goes, it took five huge storks to deliver the infant (already gigantic) Paul Bunyan to his parents in Bangor, Maine. When he grew older, one drag of the mighty lumberjack's massive ax created the Grand Canyon, while the giant footprints of his trusty companion, Babe the Blue Ox, filled with water and became Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Such frontier tall tales surely stretch reality, but was Paul Bunyan himself a real person? The true story of this iconic figure is a little more complicated. Historians believe Bunyan was based in large part on an actual lumberjack: Fabian Fournier, a French-Canadian timberman who moved south and got a job as foreman of a logging crew in Michigan after the Civil War. Six feet tall (at a time when the average man barely cleared five feet) with giant hands, Fournier went by the nickname "Saginaw Joe." He was rumored to have two complete sets of teeth, which he used to bite off hunks of wooden rails, and in his spare time enjoyed drinking and brawling. One November night in 1875, Fournier was murdered in the notoriously rowdy lumber town of Bay City, Michigan. His death, and the sensational trial of his alleged killer (who was acquitted), fueled tales of Saginaw Joe's rough-and-tumble life—and his lumbering prowess—in logging camps in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and beyond." (*from History daht calm). Very Good in Good Plus Dustjacket .
Keywords: American Myths, Tall Tales, Mythology, Prototype Superheroes, Lumberjacks, Folk Heroes,
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85548
- Book number: 85548