Title: The Starlit Journey. A Story by Pamela Bianco. Illustrated by the Author.
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. 1933. - Octavo, 7-5/8 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in light blue cloth titled in black on the spine with a vignette of a saddle on the front cover, in the original color pictorial white dust wrapper with the original price intact and present at the bottom of the front inner flap. The top edge and spine of the book's covers are slightly faded with light soiling to the joints. The head & tail of the slightly soiled dust jacket's spine are slightly chipped. [x], 46 & [1] pages, illustrated with pictorial endpapers, a full-page color frontispiece, a title page vignette, 5 full-page black & white plates, 2 full-page vignettes, and 5 textual illustrations. There is some moderately heavy foxing or offsetting to the front & rear pastedowns, and some minor foxing or soiling to the top front corner of a few pages. Very good.
First edition.
"When Pamela Bianco, now over twenty years old, was awarded the Guggenheim prize for her painting, she went back to Italy, where she was born. She remembered the beautiful old towns, the country, the rabbits, the flowers - but now the world of Italian painting and history came to her freshly. She walked the streets of Florence and lived in the Renaissance. And not only did it lead her to paint in a new way, but to write the beautiful prose of which this new book is an example." " The story of the little princess, about to go on her betrothal journey, wandering out on the hillside, awakened by a gypsy boy to the romance of life on the road, then saddened by the reality of his existence, is strangely moving.." [Quoted from the dust wrapper's blurb]. Very good .
Keywords: CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED; PAMELA BIANCO; THE STARLIT JOURNEY; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR PLATES; LITERATURE; PROSE; STORY; VIGNETTES; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ART; ARTIST; PRINCESS; BETROTHAL; WANDERING; LIFE ON THE R
- Book number: 98165
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