Children of the North Lights

First Edition, First Printing (Viking Press 1935). Quite rare. A year in the life of two Lapp children. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white throughout. One of the D'Aulaires' most desirable titles.

Ingri d'Aulaire (1904-1980) was an American children's artist and illustrator, who worked in collaboration with her husband and fellow artist, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Born Ingri Mortenson in Kongsburg, Norway, she studied art in Norway, Germany and France, and met Edgar Parin d'Aulaire when she was a student in Munich. They married in 1925, and immigrated to the USA shortly thereafter, settling in Brooklyn in 1929. After pursuing separate careers initially, the couple turned to illustrating children's books together, releasing their first collaborative effort, The Magic Rug, in 1931. They settled in Wilton, Connecticut in 1941, and lived there until they died in the 1980s. Awarded the 1940 Caldecott Medal for their picture-book biography of Abraham Lincoln, the d'Aulaires published other children's biographies, as well as some notable works on Greek and Norse mythology.

Very good in a very good dust jacket. Blue cloth-backed pictorial boards, shelf wear, corners a bit bumped. Internal content near fine except for pencil marking to the upper left corner of the title and front free endpaper, else clean, bright, and colorful. Very good pictorial dust jacket with edge wear, chipping to foot and tail of spine, and closed tear to top cover. Original price intact ($2.00). Small folio. Unpaginated.