Carr Emily Introduction Doris Shadbolt (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Very Good. 1st edition. black hardback, 1st ed. (1993), 893 pages in Very Good (minor edgewear) Dust Jacket. Lightly bumped extermities, very faint speckles to endpapers & textblock edge, otherwise clean / unmarked. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) was a Canadian artist & writer inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist & Post-Impressionist painting style.

First edition, first printing New bright tall exquisite wraps with clean bright text. Here is Emily Carr. Terrific frontispiece photograph of the painter author on horseback with beloved dogs. A gorgeous compilation. Klee Wyck is here, The Book of Small is here, as is the House of All Sorts, Hundreds and Thousands, which is the journals of an artist and much much more. This is the Emily Carr book for you.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hodgson, Barbara - Cover Design (illustrator). 893 Pages. An as new book with flawless interior text pages. This is a 1993 Reprint with the Permission of Stoddard Publishing Co. Limited, Don Mills, Ontario. It was published simultaneously in British Columbia and The United States. Oddly enough the Copyright Page lists both publishers. Published in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., Vancouver, DC ISBN 1-55054-031-9 and in the United States by University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington ISBN 0-295-97306-4. For this on-line listing the Vancouver publisher was arbitrarily chosen. Emily Carr's accomplishments as a painter and writer assure her prominence in the Canadian cultural scene. Her works inspire others in their own creative efforts. The gentle, irascible, passionate, poetic voice of Emily Carr resonates through her writings today, even more strongly than before. Her attitudes and observations were ahead of her time on native issues, because of the important role native Northwest Coast culture played in her art and life, and on feminism, as a woman who surmounted gender prejudice to achieve her goals with such distinction. Her deep commitment to nature in all its manifestations speaks to the environmental dilemmas that face us now. The Emily Carr Omnibus includes all her major published works. Here are her much-loved early stories, ranging from the gentle recollections of Klee Wyck, and The Book of Small, to the acerbic The House of All Sorts, as well as the lesser-known Pause A Sketch Book, and The Heart of a Peacock. Here also are more personal works: Growing Pains, her autobiography, and her collected journals, Hundreds and Thousand. For readers new to Emily Carr, as well as those who wish to read again their favourite stories, this book provides an exhaustive assortment of the writing of one of Canada's best loved artists and storytellers. Appreciated today as one of Canada's foremost artists, Emily Carr (1871-1945) first gained public recognition as a writer. Since her death her paintings have come to exemplify for many the brooding majesty of the coastal landscape of her native British Columbia. Oris Shadbolt is an accomplished curator and writer. Her best known book is The Art of Emily Carr published by Douglas & McIntyre.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 893 pages; 26 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Emily Carr's accomplishments as a painter and writer assure her prominence in the Canadian cultural scene. Her works inspire others in their own creative efforts. The gentle, irascible, passionate, poetic voice of Emily Carr resonates through her writings today, even more strongly than before. Her attitudes and observations were ahead of her time on native issues, because of the important role native Northwest Coast culture played in her art and life, and on feminism, as a woman who surmounted gender prejudice to achieve her goals with such distinction. Her deep commitment to nature in all its manifestations speaks to the environmental dilemmas that face us now. Thc Emily Carr Omnibus includes all her major published works. Here are her much-loved early stories, ranging for the gentle recollections of Klee Wyck and The Book of Small, to the acerbic The House of All Sorts, as well as the lesser-known Pause and The Heart of a Peacock. Here also are more personal works: Growing Pains, her autobiography, and her collected journals, Hundreds and Thousands." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.