Dark Is Dark

New York: William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher of Young Scott Books, 1947. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. Shaw, Charles G. Quarto, [36] pp., in dust jacket. An endearing children's book discussing the wonderful things to be found in the dark...such as the moon, the stars, and Santa Claus. It is also about the people of the night, such as policemen and firemen, but "mostly it is about how different people feel about the night" (n.b, from dust jacket flap).

With wonderful illustrations by Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974), "a key figure in early American abstract art", whose works are in major institutions around the world, including the Met, the MFA, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris (n.b., quote and information from Wiki).

While this not the first printing, the book is relatively scarce in the online marketplace (as of this writing, there is only one copy online) and this copy in near fine condition (with a Good plus jacket).

___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full plain grey cloth over boards, black lettering stamped onto the spine, plain grey endpapers, illustrated double-spread title page in grey and black with a few highlights in red, illustrations on every page (many of them double-spread) interspersed with text, mostly in grey and black with some red and yellow; quarto size (9 7/8" by 8 1/8"), unpaginated with eighteen leaves. In the publisher's jacket of grey with abstract tops of buildings in black, scattered stars and the moon in white and yellow, black lettering, with a summary of the book on both flaps..

___CONDITION: Volume near fine, with clean boards, gently bumped corners with minimal rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; very shallow creases at the tip of the top corners of the text block, overall a near fine example. The dust jacket better than good, with all component parts present and attached; it has been price-clipped and there is a chip out of the bottom edge of the front panel (approximately 4" wide and ranging from 3/4" to 1 1/2" tall) with loss of a portion of the final letter in the illustrator's name.

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