EVANGELINE & Other Poems – NYC Bd of Ed 1946-49 student illustrators *Read*

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Year:1946-1949
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EVANGELINE AND OTHER POEMS, preface by Elias Lieberman : NYC Bd of Ed 1946-49 student illustrators, great poetry In the summer of 1945, a new initiative was rolled out by the New York City Board of Education with almost no fanfare. “We are pleased to see that the Board of Education is distributing free copies of the classics to New York City’s school children. We agree wholeheartedly with the Mayor’s description of good reading as ‘calisthenics of the brain’…” [“Is the Mayor Willing?,” BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, July 15, 1945.]The idea was to create a series of small, (4 1/4″ x 6 3/8″) paper-bound books, reprinting classics of Western literature, that were to be given to junior high students as a means of starting their own libraries. So enthused about the program was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, that he wrote the preface to the TOM SAWYER edition of the series. And to include the students in the publication of the books themselves, it was determined that five of the six books in the series would be illustrated by young artists from the School of Industrial Art (Now the School of Art + Design). *And that’s where it gets really interesting. It turns out that years later, several of the student illustrators became famous comic and animation illustrators. Jack (Jacob) Katz, Alex (Alexander) Toth, and Joe (Joseph) Orlando. If you have never heard of them, look them up.In this listing, I’m selling only EVANGELINE AND OTHER POEMS, but all six of the original series (which includes TREASURE ISLAND, DAVID COPPERFIELD, TOM SAWYER, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY AND OTHER STORIES) are incredibly hard-to-find.Has a stamp from Public School 166 on 132 West 89th St inside the front and back covers. This one was published in 1948 by Parish Press. It has some wear on the edge of the spine and in the edges and top, front and back. But, it’s still in good shape with no markings in it. I am going with Very Good Condition for this one, considering it is 74 years old. Student illustrators in this book: Morton Rosenfeld, Herbert Granowitter, Vito Colavito, Vivian Blackstone, Alfred Teoli, York Cunningham, Jacob Katz. Poems are by Longfellow, Scott, Poe, Coleridge, Tennyson, Holmes, Browning and a few others. An excellent collection. All of the student illustrators were taught in “Classes of Illustration, School of Industrial Art. Mr. Benjamin Clements and Mr. Hoard Simon, Instructors.”*[I got most of this information, and some of the actual words, from a blog called The Comics Detective. Thank you, Ken Quattro. Please look it up. I’m not allowed to put a link in a listing, you know. ]Please look at all the photos and read everything I’ve written about the condition and description of this item. Contact me via eBay if you have any questions that the photos or description do not answer. If I can ship it to you safely for less, I will refund you any significant difference. I’m a highly rated seller and I ship quickly. It’ll come to you from a smoke-free, pet-free, virus-free house. Thanks for the consideration.

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