John Tabor's ride : production material.

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John Tabor's ride : production material.

Corrected typescript, corrected carbon, etching illustrations, trial proofs of etchings, mixed-media dummy with type position. "A tall tale based on a New England sea legend about how a whale carries homesick John Tabor from a South Sea island where he has been shipwrecked, over the ruins of a city beneath the sea, past the Cape of Good Hope, past a fog-shrouded lighthouse manned by an unexpected crew, and into the very streets of Nantucket."

Manuscripts: 1 folder.Illustrations: 15 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7812476

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Lent, Blair

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Blair Lent was born January 22, 1930 in Boston Massachusetts. He graduated from the Museum of Fine Arts School of Art in 1953 and later studied art in Switzerland and Italy. In the 1950s, he worked as an assistant art director and creative designer and in the 1960s began illustrating and writing children's books. Many of his ideas for books and illustrations come from the folklore of Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, and his own travel experiences. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1973 for The...