"Come One, Come All!" 1949 FREEMAN, Don (INSCRIBED w/ Drawing)
$150
FREEMAN, Don
Don Freeman (August 11, 1908 – February 1, 1978) was an American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and an illustrator and writer of children's books. He was active from the 1930s to the 1970s and often used Times Square as the backdrop of his memorable works.
[244] pp.
Rinehart & Company, Inc.
1949
9" x 7"
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*rear panel of jacket spine separated but presents well under archival glassine mylar*
Warmly inscribed: For Faith and Mac Miller with all my best This copy is specially and sincerely smeared by the author who is so very greatly indebted to you Faith for your part in putting this together (w/ pencil drawing!)
Don Freeman arrived on the sidewalks of New York with a trumpet under his arm, a artist’s sketch pad in his suitcase and an intense desire to find out if New York was really the place he had dreamed about. His hot trumpet took him from Little Italy and the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley and his pencil recorded everything he saw. Don Freeman is no Alger hero and his is not a rags to riches story. COME ONE COME ALL! reveals the maturing of a young man but it is an illustrated profile of New York as well. In these pages you will read about the Greats of the theater as seen through the eager eyes of a youngster, new to it all. You will experience the feeling of the city and the intense masses that make up its population. You will see Mr. Freeman’s drawings of backstage at the theater and of famous New Yorkers. You will come to know the equally important unknowns - the street peddler, a neighborhood laundryman who turned out to be Freeman’s severest art critic, and the man in the subway change booth. Only a person with great perception and an equally great love for New York and everything in it could have written COME ONE COME ALL!