Rare First Edition 1944 Hardcover Book: Yesterday's Children by Pavel Tchelitchew & Parker Tyler - Vintage Collectible Art Book for Art Lovers & Collectors

Tchelitchew, Pavel, and Parker Tyler. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishing, 1944.

English, Rare, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 10 1/4" x 8", Unpaginated. 

Black cloth over board, stamped white lettering to front panel and spine, two pages left unopened, some wear to tips and edges, minor cocking to spine, light soiling, toning to text block, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Good pictorial off-white dust jacket, featuring an illustration by Russian-born painter and designer, Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) to front panel, black-and-white photograph of Tchelitchew in studio to back panel, black lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, 2" chip to head, partial lettering loss, some chips to tips and tail, minor wear, light soiling, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Unpaginated. Includes 30 full-page preliminary drawings for Tchelitchew's 1940-42 artwork Hide and Seek and an accompanying poem by American author, poet, and film critic, Parker Tyler (1904-1974). From inside the dust jacket: "[The drawings] magically evoke the whole lost world of childhood--its wildness, its imagination, its brutality--for children are often brutal--its gaiety and its confusion...There is an anger in these pictures, as well as grace, for the author has caught the fierceness of childhood. The accompanying poem by Parker Tyler expresses in simple, beautifully lyric verse the poet's reactions to the pictures."