Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman; with: publisher’s poster, inscribed with a sketch by Jerry Pinkney
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, (1996). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 9.25 inches: [40]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, pale green endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations on every page. Signature of Jerry Pinkney in ink to front free endpaper. With: color pictorial poster measuring 24 x 20 inches, inscribed in ink: “Especially for Daniel & Miriam / Jerry Pinkney,” with an ink sketch of Tubman.
First edition of this moving picture book depicting Harriet Tubman’s childhood experience of slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, signed by illustrator Jerry Pinkney. Set long before young Minty’s escape and storied career as an abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, and Union spy, the narrative imagines the day-to-day struggles of a “difficult” slave: “she dreamed of sunflowers and stars, and the call of the whippoorwill, and a road through the forest that one day, when she had the courage.” The book is accompanied by the publisher’s promotional poster featuring Pinkney’s cover design of Minty on the banks of the Big Buckwater River, and is inscribed with an original ink portrait of Tubman. Pinkney would win the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Minty in 1997, one of his many lifetime honors, among them the Caldecott Medal for The Lion & the Mouse in 2010. A fine signed book and inscribed poster by a celebrated American illustrator.
Price: $250.00