Valentine & Orson by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and similar items

Valentine Orson This copy of Valentine Orson by Nancy Ekholm Burkert is a HB with a DJ and it comes with the poster. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1989, and it is a First Edition. Condition: Very Good/Good--pages are crisp and clean and show no handling; there is a name and date on the front end page; binding tight; covers in nice shape; DJ has a tear at the top of the spine that's been taped; DJ has been price clipped; the poster shows slight handling and has a small dog ear at the top right corner. Poster measures roughly 18 3/4 inches X 21 inches. Hard to find with the poster. From Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated, this medieval prose romance has been translated and recast by Burkert ( Cinderella ) into Chaucerian iambic pentameter. The mysterious Pacolet narrates as a 16th-century troupe of itinerant players performs the story of two brothers separated at birth, one raised at court and the other by a bear in the forest. It is a tale of chivalry, brotherhood and forgiveness, wherein the brothers conquer the awful Green Knight and outwit the giant Ferragus. At play's end, the brothers reunite their estranged parents who choose "to dwell in joy and not in bitterness." Like Brueghel, whose paintings inspired the illustrations, Burkert's canvases are brilliantly colored and richly detailed, full of round-faced peasants and robust farmers. The exuberant actors--the "giant" teetering on his stilts, the false Archbishop who doubles as a bear--are as endearing as the complicated story that asks its readers to "Bear witness, / Friends, to forces of forgiveness, / True devotion, and humility, / For they unite us as a family." A Floyd Yearout Book. All ages. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, In I do combine shipping. Thanks for looking!