{"product_id":"francis-lee-jaques-artist-of-the-wilderness-world-1973-vintage-book-with-slipcase","title":"Francis Lee Jaques: Artist of the Wilderness World, 1973 Vintage Book with Slipcase","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome books are meant to be read. Others are meant to be kept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the definitive book on Francis Lee Jaques, one of America's great wildlife painters, written by his wife Florence Page Jaques with a foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. Inside are 64 of his paintings and museum dioramas in full color: pheasants in tall prairie grass, ducks lifting off still water, a boy resting with his plow horses beneath an enormous summer sky. Alongside them, 100 drawings in scratchboard, pen and ink, and pencil, plus a treasury of writings from the six books the couple made together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJaques painted the background dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and his work has a quiet, luminous stillness that feels right at home in a cabin, a study or beside a fireplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy comes in its original slipcase, with a painting of ducks on the front. Inside is a handwritten gift note: \"To Bernice and Dick, with every good wish, from the Hawkins Family, Mar. 1978.\" A small piece of someone else's story, carried forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoubleday \u0026amp; Company, Garden City, New York, 1973\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLarge cloth hardcover with gilt flying geese on the cover, in original slipcase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e370 pages, 64 color plates and 100 drawings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: book in excellent condition; slipcase shows light wear; handwritten 1978 gift inscription inside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA beautiful keepsake to tuck into any Bill \u0026amp; Evelyn picnic basket for the nature lover in your life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll sales final on vintage pieces. Condition details accurately described. Complimentary shipping included.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bill \u0026 Evelyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67625653666160,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8196\/5680\/files\/IMG_6828.jpg?v=1791059226","url":"https:\/\/billandevelyn.com\/products\/francis-lee-jaques-artist-of-the-wilderness-world-1973-vintage-book-with-slipcase","provider":"Bill \u0026 Evelyn ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}