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Samstag, 23. September 2023

Mary Austin: The Trail Book with Illustrations by MILO WINTER

 Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator.

 

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Sonntag, 20. August 2023

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales illustrated by Milo Winter

 Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of  Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels,Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.

 


"Come into my warm room and dine with me."


The swan laid his head in her lap and she stroked  its white wings.

 

The poor Duckling was scoffed at by the whole yard.

 

The Queen made a lovely little bag.
 

She rapped the white coat around him.
 
 
He arrived in the lands of the Turks.
 
 
 
The Nightingale sang so enchantingly that tears came into the Emperor's eyes. 

He was swallowed up by great fish. (Frontispiece)


 
There stood Bellissima.


Montag, 29. August 2022

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne with Illustrations by MILO WINTER

Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of  Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.


The great rock stirred!
 


 

 
The  king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast he could to the window.
 
 
 
They never once thought wether their  sails were black, white, or rainbow coloured.


They were constantly at war with the cranes.


The enemy's breath rushed out of his nose in an opstreperous hurricane and whirlwind.


It grieves me to think of them, still keeping up that weary pilgrimage.


The brindled cow never offered to lie down.


"Have you anything to tell me, little bird?"


It looked so intolerably absurd to see hogs on cushioned thrones.


 
The child besought them to go with her a little way into the fields. 


It was never extinguished by the rain or wind.


"It is the only one in the world," said the servant.


"I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man.


Jason was delighted with the oaken  image, and gave the carver no rest until it was completed.
 

She was one of these persons whose eyes are full of mystery.


Jason cought the fleece from the tree.




Dienstag, 7. April 2020

A WONDER BOOK illustrated by MILO WINTER

Milo Winter (1888 – 1956) was a well-known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of  Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels,Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.


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The only music for poor Midas, now, was the clink of one coin against the another.


 "Give us our eye!"

 The small, embroidered wallet...grew all at once large enough to contain Medusa's head.



It was a very pleasant life indeed.
 

 Then he sat down on the grass, and told them the story of his life.

 And what should Hercules espy there, but an old man fast asleep!


 An abundant cascade fell bubbling into the bowl.


 As it came within arm's-length,  Bellerophon made a cut at the monster.


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