HOBAN, RUSSELL — Jim's Lion

Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2014. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0763665177. Illustrated by Alexis Deacon. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with a couple of very tiny spots of ground-in dirt to the spine joints. "The note "About the Artist" in the Macmillan Classics Edition of Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (second printing 1965) , which Hoban illustrated, notes that he worked in advertising for Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn and that he later became the art director of J. Walter Thompson: "Heavy machinery later became subjects for his paintings, and this led him into the children's book field with the writing and illustrating of What Does It Do and How Does It Work? And The Atomic Submarine." That note also points out that in 1964, at the time the book's illustrations were copyrighted, Hoban was teaching drawing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, collaborating with his first wife on their fifth children's book, and living in Connecticut. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .