The blind men and the elephant : production material.

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The blind men and the elephant : production material.

Ink & wash illustration with text proof & separations for jacket, ink & wash illustration with separations for endpapers, ink & wash illustrations with separations, ink & wash illustrations, crayon sketch, photocopy ink & wash illustration with text proof, text proof paste-up, ink & wash illustration with separations for bookmark, text proof paste-up for bookmark. Retold in verse, this is the story of six blind men who, each having touched a different part of an elephant, cannot agree on what the beast is like.

Illustrations: 46 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7816627

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Saxe, John Godfrey, 1816-1887

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American poet. From the description of Letter [manuscript], 1871, Albany, New York, to [James Ripley] Osgood. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823406 John Godfrey Saxe (June 2, 1816 - 1887) was an American poet perhaps best known for his parable, "The Blindmen and the Elephant."He was mentioned several times in "The Penultimate Peril.", along with his most famous poem. He was described as an American humorist poet of the nineteenth cenury.Biographical Source:...

Galdone, Paul

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Paul Galdone was born circa 1907 in Budapest, Austria- Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1921. Galdone studied art at the Art Student's League and New York School for Industrial Design . He served in World War II in the U.S. Army, Engineers. The author and illustrator of children's books also was employed as a bus boy, electrician's helper, and fur dryer, in addition to four years in the art department at Doubleday (NY). His work was awarded runner up for the Caldecott Medal ( Eve T...