Ellis Parker Butler, The Thin Santa Claus illus. MAY WILSON PRESTON 1st Ed. 1909

Description: The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard that Was a Christmas Stocking by Ellis Parker Butler. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston. Published in 1909 by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. Hardcover, no dust jacket. 35 pages. First edition. The book is in very nice condition. The dust jacket is missing. There is minor wear to the top and bottom of the spine and a bump to the top corner of the cover. There are no bookplates, ink names, pen/pencil notations, or similar flaws. See photos! Ellis Parker Butler (1869 – 1937) was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. He is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Mary (May) Wilson Watkins Preston (1873 – 1949) was an American illustrator of books and magazines and an impressionist painter. She had an interest in art beginning in her teenage years, but her parents sent her to Oberlin College hoping that she would develop another interest. After three years, and at the urging of one of her teachers, Preston's parents allowed her to return to New York and attend the Art Students League. She then studied in Paris with James Whistler and next at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase. Following the death of her first husband, Thomas Henry Watkins, Preston embarked on a career as an illustrator to support herself. She socialized and exhibited with artists of the Ashcan School and married one of the group, James Moore Preston, in 1903. They traveled to Europe together, summered on Long Island, and co-illustrated a magazine story. She became a successful illustrator for magazines, like Harper's Bazaar and The Saturday Evening Post, and was a successful book illustrator. Considered one of the top women illustrators between 1900 and 1940, Preston was one of the few female members and exhibitors of the Society of Illustrators, having been admitted March 29, 1904, after peers Florence Scovel Shinn, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, and Jessie Willcox Smith. Like them, she was only an Associate Member since full membership was not allowed for women until the 1920s. She exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show and won a medal at the Panama–Pacific Exposition in 1915. Preston was one of the major suffrage artists. Her works are in a number of museum collections. This humorous Christmas vignette would make a terrific present -- it's never too early to snap up a bargain for the holidays! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our father was a bibliophile who collected rare books, letters, and ephemera for more than 60 years. For now and into the foreseeable future, we will be listing rare paper items from his estate. Take a look at all our items for sale. We combine shipping upon request. Please LET US KNOW if you’ve purchased multiple items so we can combine.

Price: 25 USD

Location: Slingerlands, New York

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