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INSCRIBED by the ILLUSTRATOR THOMAS LOCKER who added his SELF-PORTRAIT CARTOON with an ACROSTIC on the front free endpaper, oblong tall 8vo (8 3/4" x 10 7/8"), brown 1/8th cloth with white lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with full-color reproductions of oil paintings by Thomas Locker, gold endpapers, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 32 pages. INSCRIBED by noted artist Thomas Locker (1937-2012), an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, and author of children's literature. His oil paintings follow in the tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting. This UNIQUE copy was INSCRIBED by Locker with his cartoon head (with name written acrostically) for his "grandchildren." The time period of CALICO & TIN HORNS is around the mid-19th century (ca. 1839-1845) when wealthy landowners in the Hudson River Valley of New York State refused to allow share-cropping farmers to buy the land they worked. Some workers were former soldiers of the American Revolution. Many had been led to believe that they would eventually own their farms per supposedly legal indentures and related agreements. Such illegal oppression led to an uprising by the agricultural lower class who called themselves "the Calico Indians" along the lines of the Boston Tea Party "Indians." This populist rebellion against the patroon system is now called "the Anti-Rent War." It led to important legal reforms in the State of New York. This highly unusual title deals with a young girl from a farm family in the Hudson River Valley. The surprising, painterly, yet somewhat ominous cover art depicts our heroine seated in the midst of masked men, but we learn the painting actually reflects her sitting proudly among her relatives and friends who struggled against the exploitive landowners. It's a surprising story with glowing reproductions of Thomas Locker's paintings. Unusual for a "Children's" historical book, it is more suitable for a Young Adult and fairly sophisticated readership. VF/F copy: Tight, bright, & clean in a comparable unclipped dj with very slight wear. No previous owner or remainder marks.
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