SILVERSTEIN, Shel; [Paulette Breen].
The Giving Tree.
"Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy": The Giving Tree; Signed by Shel Silverstein with a large one-page original drawing to television actress and producer Paulette Breen
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.
$18,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-149402
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown with a large original drawing of a tree which has been carved to read the name 'Paulette' and inscribed on the half-title page at the bottom left corner, "With Love ~ Shel Silverstein." The recepient, Paulette Breen, was a television actress and producer best known for her role as Ron Howard’s girlfriend on the television series Happy Days and for her leading performance in the long-running soap opera All My Children. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Jerry Yulsman. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable with such a large, unique original drawing and warm inscription.
One of the most widely interpreted and best-selling children's books of all time, The Giving Tree has sold over ten million copies since its first appearance in 1964. The book has been described as "one of the most divisive books in children's literature" for the various interpretations inspired by the relationship between the selfless female giving tree and the human boy who benefits from her gifts as he grows through adulthood into old age. Throughout the picture book, the boy benefits at all stages of life from the tree's gifts with little regard for the tree's well-being in return. This relationship has been interpreted as a representation of the relationship between man and nature, mother and child, and as the "Christian ideal of unconditional love" (Leonard, 2005).
The Giving Tree.
$18,000.00
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