Pockets (Includes Color Poster)
New York: Crown, 1998. GrandPre, Mary. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Item #2322937
ISBN: 9780517709269
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "Let your imagination soar! November 7, 1998." Includes color poster. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
Unpaginated. Includes color poster. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. The somber, hard-working people of an isolated town on the plains ply through life in the drabbest of gray clothes--until, in the linings of their pockets, they begin to discover lavishly embroidered pictures of far-away places, sewn there by a mysterious young woman who has recently arrived and taken up work as the town's seamstress. Exploring these stitched visions--of proud ships and sparkling oceans, of golden towers and distant cities, of buccaneers, sea serpents, and gold--the austere townspeople find themselves transformed. A husband and wife suddenly fall in love again, brightly colored flags appear on rooftops, houses are painted in azure and crimson, dances are held...
Price: $50.00