The Singing Twins, The Child's Book of Famous Musicians
Chicago: "Just Right Books" Publishers, Albert Whitman Company, 1924. Violet Moore HIGGINS. Cloth. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Violet Moore HIGGINS, illustrator.
12mo; 126, [1]pp; green buckram over board, color pictorial onlay to front board picturing two children singing from musical scores; pictorial endpapers in sepia tones, ownership in neat pen on ffep; illustrated half-title, fp, vignette of two children holding music on title page, pictorial copyright page; 12 full-page color illustrations including fp, small illustrations throughout text; binding tight; light rubbing to edges, else fine. Fine. Item #1835
A very charming book for children introducing them to famous composers and musicians in story form. Each chapter is introduced by a rhyming verse. In introducing the chapter on the Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn the chapter starts “Said Papa Haydn, ‘Though I roam. / I’ll always remember singing at home, / In Vienna I learned to sing / And play on almost everything!’” Illustrated throughout by Violet Moore Higgins (1886-1967), a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, she was also a writer and cartoonist.
Price: $45.00