Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ric, Thanks to a gift to a neighbouring child from an American aunt or uncle (the Irish diaspora used to send us things like that from the land of plenty - good on them, and we were very grateful for any exotica from the Star Spangled heaven), I had a loan of, and read, the "Treasure Island" illustrated by Wyeth whose pedigree and spawn I wasn't aware of until now. However, re-seeing it on our good friend Google, the image of the pirates traversing the island's yellow skyline leaps out of my memory. It made an impression. I never saw another book with his illustrations, probably due to them never being sold here, and that despite being gainfully employed to daily stock, and monitor, the trestle tables laden with second hand books during the summer of '69 at George Webb's. That was a great bookshop right on Dublin's quays beside the Liffey, had incredibly knowledgeable staff, and is mentioned by James Joyce in "Dubliners". Probably Joyce liked Webbs as, per Padraic Colum, he had tried to sell secondhand books to them, and while rebuffed, had received useful advice. I worked from July to November that year there and had some fun meeting the literati and the madmen of Dublin. I still remember the touched Bang Bang whose simple pleasure was to "shoot" people cowboy style with a "gun" which was a large key. People all around Dublin would join in to humour him, exchange "shots", and stagger back clutching their hearts. I remember the late John Young the manager there and myself in our brown shop coats, ducking into the doorway, levelling imaginary guns, and exchanging fire with Bang Bang who never seemed to be hit. All his opponents must have had bad aims... On "Treasure Island", there was another illustrated one for kids produced in the UK which I had back in the 50s. It had back and white drawings, and a colour cover which vanished thanks to the predations of my three siblings. Possibly, the remnants are up in my mother's attic. Douglas On 19/09/2017 16:26, RicCarter wrote: > from grreat books of my childhood > > <https://www.google.com/search?q=wyeth+book+illustrations&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf1YOnx7HWAhUh_IMKHQvrDg8Q_AUI7wEoAQ&biw=1407&bih=1090> > > https://goo.gl/DFzaDb > > ric > > > > >> On Sep 19, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks, I didn?t know Wyeth and am honored > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information