ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN — Mary Engelbreit's the Snow Queen

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1563054388. Illustrated by Mary Engelbreit. 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. "Engelbreit began working for a local advertising company, Hot Buttered Graphics. 7 Hoping to work as an illustrator of children's books, she shopped her portfolio around New York without success. She began working on greeting card and her first nationally distributed greeting card featured a malapropism that played off an old saying, "Life is just a bowl of cherries", showing a girl looking at a chair piled high with bowls, with the legend: "Life is just a chair of bowlies." Her company, Mary Engelbreit Co, was founded in 1982. It was located in Webster Groves, Missouri and then was moved to a former Greek Orthodox church in University City, Missouri in 1994. As of 1996, her company reported $8" (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .