Mrs Peregrine And The Yak

Burns, Esther: Mrs Peregrine and the Yak. Illustrated by Eloise Wilkin. Decorated paper over new boards with blue cloth spine (new bibliphil binding in original illustr. color. Paper). Illustrated charming endpapers. No marks except long dedication in old lettering on empty second frontpaper, no foxing, just a perfect beautiful book. A bright and attractive copy. Black and white plus colour illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Like new! [I have never read a more charming book on Tibet!!!] Henry Holt,New York 1938.
Eloise Burns, was born in Rochester, New York in 1904. She became a freelance illustrator after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a year later was in New York City, with Joan Esley, another graduate. Maybe that's why Joan's LGB, Play Street looks so much like and Eloise book. Her first day in New York she was given a book contract to illustrate for Century Publishing. Married, Sydney Wilkin, around 1935, they moved to Canandaigua to illustrate and raise a family. Eloise, illustrated her first book with her sister Esther Wilkin (married Sydney's brother), Mrs. Peregrine and the Yak, in 1939. They would collaborate on around 20 books. In 1943, George Duplaix, and editor for Simon & Schuster and one of the key people in the development of Little Golden Books asked her to come to New York and talk about a contract. She told him she couldn't because she hadn't a babysitter. Duplaix, would not take no and Eloise went to New York and signed a contract with the Little Golden Book people to do around four books a year. She illustrated, exclusively for Golden Books from 1943 to 1961. Her last book for Golden was published around the mid 80's.

unpag. 51 S.

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