DOUBLE-SIGNED Bob Timberlake & Jerry Bledsoe, Partial to Home, NC Artist/Author

Description: Partial to Home: A Memoir of the HeartDouble Signed By Bob Timberlake & Jerry Bledsoe Published: Down Home Press, Asheboro, NC, 2000. FIRST EDITION. 304 pp. Hardcover in original binding and dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by Bob Timberlake on the front free endpaper in bold black marker ink, in the shape of a Christmas tree.This book is actually double signed, with the author Jerry Bledsoe also signing at the bottom of the same page that Bob Timberlake signed. Book itself is Like New with no visible signs of wear or use. The dust jacket is intact and present but does have a few creases and small tears on the top edge that have been taped (see photos). This will be packed very carefully and shipped US Media Mail with Tracking. We are happy to combine items to save you money on shipping. For example, we can send you three typical DVDs for the price of 1. Just put your selection in your shopping cart and press the Request Total button (top right) and we will get back to you with the lowest combined shipping price. Remember Media Mail starts at $4.13 for the first pound weight (or fraction), but then only 74 cents for each additional pound (or fraction). And visit our sister store on eBay (GutenburgReads) to see the more than 700 interesting items we are selling. Description: A down-home memoir by the self-taught millionaire artist and designer. Somewhere between Johnny Cash and Grandma Moses, and with sales between Martha Stewart and Bill Blass, lies this regional giant of art and design (The World of Bob Timberlake, 1979, etc.). Now, instead of paintings that evoke the weathered gray-browns and the green green grass of home, we get the corresponding prose: natural craftspeople, antebellum homes and lives, critter cuisine of squirrel and possum, and taller-than-fiction facts about the rise of this phenomenon who never painted until the age of 28. Timberlake, a Southern mallard-hunting and crappie-fishing gas company employee inspired by a magazine article on Andrew Wyeth, took up watercolors, made a name for himself as a local realist, and eventually became an icon who hobnobbed with Wyeth, Armand Hammer, Prince Charles, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. But he maintains that he is still more concerned with friends and relatives who "define love, heritage and devotion to the land on which you're born.'' While he wades knee-deep in Lexington County sincerity, he says, jealous academics will dismiss him as a `` `paint-by-numbers artist' producing `sleazy, cheap . . . plastic nostalgia.' " In fact, Timberlake canvases, neo-antique wooden furniture, and log houses aren't cheap at all, but some will see his ties to the timeless as backwards. This country road of a memoir, kept ditchless but unpaved by Jerry Bledsoe (Bitter Blood, 1988, etc.) is similarly crafted like an instant antique. It could have been slicked-up by a Manhattan publisher, but true to Timberlake it was nailed together locally, with all the knotholes showing. Ignoring the big city art world of elephant dung and the Virgin Mary, Timberlake respects history, ghosts, and God, and concludes his reminiscence by recounting the many providential people and events that allowed his miraculous career to unfold. Thirty-two pages of photos (not seen) adorn a retrospective that will be loved by regular folk and disdained by rootless cosmopolitans. By the way: Welcome to the new ebay storefront for The Shepherd's Center of Winston-Salem. The store will be operated by experienced ebay sellers who have been selling some of our best donations for several years now through their own storefronts. Now we are using these same experienced sellers to sell to you directly. For the philanthropists out there, the vast majority of the items sold by us (Gutenberg Reads and others), are for the benefit of The Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem, whose mission is to help house-bound seniors live full and independent lives in their own homes. The center provides transportation to medical appointments and grocery shopping, assistance with minor repairs around the house, and companionship through visits. The citizens of Winston-Salem generously donate books, music, movies, and more to us to help us achieve our mission. And now, you can buy useful items from us directly, and you will be helping the less fortunate in our city.

Price: 29 USD

Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-08-12T13:04:12.000Z

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