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236 ● MAUD PETERSHAM. The Shepard Psalm.
17 pencil and wash drawings (11 full page, 5 vignettes and title page) with color separations
on acetate; also, the artists’ dummy and one color proof of the dust jacket.Various sizes.
NewYork: Macmillan Co., 1962. [2,500/3,500]
This illustrated edition of the 23rd Psalm was the only book Maud Petersham completed
after her husband’s death in 1960.Webster, pp. 122-23.
237 ● MAUD AND MISKA
PETERSHAM. Get-a-way and Háry János.
22 preliminary pencil drawings (mostly on
tracing paper) with some watercolor; and an
incomplete set of color and black-and-white
page proofs (some in blue only) marked in
pencil “My first copy.” Various sizes. Some
marginal tears and other wear.NewYork:The
Viking Press, 1933. [1,500/2,500]
The story describes how a worn-out horse and
damaged wooden soldier go to the land where
old toys are repaired. MargeryWilliams Bianco,
who wrote The Velveteen Rabbit, was especially
fond of this picture book. Háry János is a
Hungarian folk character, a boastful ex-hassar
in the Austrian army in the tradition of Baron
Munchausen. These studies for arguably the
Petershams’ masterpiece are mostly of folk toys
they collected from around the world. One sketch
is of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, who does not
appear in the finished book. The popular
husband and wife team won the prestigious
Caldecott Medal in 1946.Webster pp. 96-97.
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