The World of Tasha Tudor

              

Tasha Tudor Newsletter
September 2008 
Volume 2 Number 9

© 2008 Cellar Door Books
 
In This Issue
NEW ITEMS FROM BETHANY TUDOR
HENRY Z. WALCK
AN INTERESTING PROVISION
JAPANESE BOOKS
Black-eyedPP
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We have these new items just in from Bethany Tudor:
Springtime Celebration, the Jenny Wren Press print.   We have a few copies signed by Tasha that were  Bethany's personal copies.  Bethany has also agreed to counter-sign them.  Item  25771  
These few pieces are $125.00 each unmatted and unframed.

Springtime Celebration

  Also available are 3 pieces of yellow ware formerly in Tasha Tudor's collection.
     These were once owned and used by Tasha Tudor in her Webster, NH, home circa 1950-70, and subsequently owned by her daughter Bethany Tudor, ca. 1970-2008. 
 
LARGE YELLOW WARE BOWL.  Of unknown date, this bowl, sits on a rolled base and also has a 3/4 inch rolled lip around the entire bowl.  Below this lip is a band consisting of two red-brown stripes on either side of 3 wide white glazed stripes,  1 3/4" wide.  One 4" closed hair-line crack running down from the lip.  Shows normal light aging.  13 3/4' w at top x 6 3/8" h.   Item 25773  $ 375.00
 
LARGE BOWL, unknown date, rolled foot and ¾" rolled lip around the entire bowl.  Below this lip is a band consisting of two narrow brown stripes on either side of 1 large white glazed stripe,  1 5/8" wide.  The bowl has hair-line cracks running down from the lip.  Shows normal light aging.  12 1/2"' w at top x 6" h.   Item 25774   $345.00

MILK PAN, of unknown date, has a shallow indented bottom with a quartered foot base.  The flared sides have no lip.  There is a 3/4" chip from the rim.   Shows normal light aging.  12"' w at top x 3 1/2" h.    Item 25775    $425.00
 Call us for more details.
           800-818-8419
    We have these Pumpkin Moonshine items for sale . . .
 
Oxford, 4th printing, 1945.  [46] pp. including free endpapers.  A clean and tight interior in the polka dot cover.   Light soiling at the bottom edge, and lightest rubbing  at the corners.  There is a small crack at the top of the front hinge, and a lightly penciled name on the book plate.  A very nice copy of a book that's becoming more difficult to locate.  Item  25772    $550.00
 
Walck, Enlarged edition, ca. 1966.  [56] pp. Rebound ex-library copy.   3 lines of text on title page verso indicate copyright was renewed in 1966.  This printing does not have a catalog card form on the title page verso.  Item 23435   $85.00
 
55th Anniversary edition, JWP, 1993.  [48] pp. Gold embossed leather binding.  One numbered copy from a production run of 250.   Signed and dated opposite half-title:  T. Tudor  1993. The reproduction Thank You note from Sylvie Ann is laid in.   Item 9773.    $250.00
 
55th Anniversary edition, JWP, 1993.  [48] pp. Blue cloth.  Cover gilt imprint with anniversary illustration. Lacking the blue paper replica of Thank You note. Child's crayon and an inscription on the first 3 pages, but none from the half-tile onward. White dj rubbed, with vertical darkened lines from rubbing. Signed T. Tudor 1993.  Item 17359   $75.00
 
Another copy in blue cloth without the soiling, and a water stain to the dust jacket.  Item 25051   $55.00
 
Walck, paperback.  [44] pp. Price sticker on back cover: 4.95.  One copy has a section of the back cover lifted in the removal of a sticker.  Item 12242   $35.00
 
Proof sheet of the Jenny Wren Press reprint containing 24 pages and 13 images.  23" x 29"   Item 12811  $25.00    
extra postage for tube mailing  

Proof sheet of the Jenny Wren Press dust jacket with the jacket image repeated 4 times.  23" x 29"   Item 23773  $15.00    
 extra postage for tube mailing
 
Simon and Schuster, recent reprint.  [40] pp.  Orange printed paper over boards.   Item 25577    $15.00
 
Tasha Tudor's Sampler.  David, McKay Company.  1st edition of the 3 story anthology: [104] pp.   Dust jacket is complete with $7.95 price on front flap. A Tale for Easter, Pumpkin Moonshine, The Dolls' Christmas.  A fine clean copy with lightest discoloration
to the cover.  Item 25625  $95.00
 
CALICO BOOKS. Media Factory Reprints of the early Calico versions (in English) of Pumpkin Moonshine, Alexander the Gander, and Dorcas Porkus.  These sets were distributed in mid-2004 with the August 15, 2000, Japanese translations of the three books by Naito 1999.  Pumpkin ... and Alexander ... are printed with a facsimile signature.
Item 25582     $65.00

JWP PO 06 50TH ANNIVERSARY PRINT. 
This is a large print featuring Sylvie Ann in her Grandpawp's corn field.  Tudor lettered the names of her book titles in an extended ribbon border.  25" x 19"    Item 18229  $20.00


18229
70th Anniversary
of the Publication of
Pumpkin Moonshine

Pumpkin Moonshine

It was 70 years ago this month that Pumpkin Moonshine first went on sale.  Pumpkin Moonshine was published September 15, 1938.  Jersey City Printing Company completed the printing April 1st of that year, and Brownworth & Co. of New York City completed the binding on September 15.  Henry Walck provided the copyright application and affidavit to the Library of Congress September 21, and 2 copies of the book were received on September 22.  Arcane facts perhaps, but they help us understand a little more of this first outing by Tasha Tudor as author/illustrator. We do not know how many copies were ordered in the first printing. 

The book has endured.  It went on to become the iconic cornerstone of many Tasha Tudor collections.  If one doesn't have a copy of Pumpkin Moonshine, then a collection can never reflect the full range of Tudor's output.   The book has been reprinted by Henry Z. Walck, David McKay, the Jenny Wren Press, Random House, and currently by Simon & Schuster.
HENRY Z. WALCK,
 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,
AND
 TASHA TUDOR
 
Henry Ziegler Walck's grandfather manufactured grain cradles in Greencastle, Pa., for many years up to 1928.   As a young boy, Walck was a true "whistle blower" at the plant.   His grandfather let him pull the noon time whistle signaling workers to go home for lunch.  As a young college graduate, Walck was associated with Putnam's and Prentice-Hall before joining Oxford University Press in 1936.  See www.greencastlemuseum.org/Local_History/walck.htm for more details.
 
Henry Z. Walck (1908-1984) was Tasha Tudor's first publisher (a person) at Oxford University Press, Inc. New York (a company).  Eunice Blake is often mentioned as the young editor who began her career when she took Tudor's Pumpkin Moonshine manuscript as her first project (1938).  But it is Henry Z. Walck's name that appears on the copyright certificate.  He filed copyright notices with the Library of Congress as an employee of Oxford in New York.      
 
Oxford (i.e., Walck the man) and Tudor continued to work together publishing books for 20 years.  Walck was President of the US branch of the company from 1948 until late 1957.  At that time, Oxford divested its line of children's books in this country.  Henry Walck left Oxford, purchased its children's book division (copyright to about 250 titles) and soon began to reprint these books under his own company name - Henry Z. Walck, Inc.   
 
Some of Tasha Tudor's books were included in this reprinting activity.  This is why the early Calico books appeared in a larger format in the 1960s indicating they were published by Walck, two decades after their original publication.  They are reprints. 
 
The obfuscating part of this corporate transition is that Walck cites the original copyright date thus:   © Henry Z. Walck, Inc.  1942.   This is a fallacious statement on its face because Walck the company did not exist until 1957.   But because Walck the man headed OUP and had handled authors, titles and copyright forms, he seems to have felt that he did indeed copyright the book in 1942.   And said so. Thus confusing Tudor collectors about the age and nature of their books.   One presumes the same muddying of the waters applies to other Oxford children's books published before 1958.  There was never a statement linking the earlier publication with the reprints. 
 
More Prayers (1967) is the only Tudor title Henry Z. Walck, Inc. published as a first edition.
 
Walck did not reprint all of Tudor's Oxford titles.  The ones he missed are some of the most sought after and collectible of Tudor's early books.  Titles such as Snow Before Christmas, The White Goose, Edgar Allan Crow and Amanda and the Bear were only published by Oxford University Press, New York, Inc.
 
Walck continued with his own company until 1973 when he retired and sold it (and its stable of titles) to the publisher  David McKay.  Tasha Tudor's Sampler is a compilation of 3 stories published with the McKay imprint.
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AN INTERESTING PROVISION
            FROM TASHAS TUDOR'S WILL
 
Genealogists spend much time hunting and gleaning probated wills for clues to ancestors' lives.   Ms Tudor's last will and testament will soon join that mother lode of research information.   The will is currently in the probate court of Windham County, Vermont.   Among Tasha's other bequests and directives is:
 
Part Twelfth:  I direct that my body be cremated and my ashes be buried, together with the ashes of my predeceased dogs and the ashes of my pet rooster, "Chickahominy," should he predecease me, under the "Mystery Rose" in my garden.   I further direct that there be no funeral or viewing.
 
The mystery rose was one which Ms Tudor planted, but could never identify. 

Tasha Tudor and Family, Inc. has announced a public memorial service to be held at the Adams Farm, Wilmington, Vermont, on the evening of Friday September 12, 6:45-8:30 pm.   They say "We'll take a short walk to the pond where there will be a brief ceremony. Those who wish may take part in floating candles on the pond in the twilight. After this ceremony, you may continue to reminisce around the beautiful bonfire.  There is no charge for admittance, but you do need to reserve a spot ahead of time by calling 802.257.4444.  We'll begin taking reservation on Tuesday, September 2nd.
We have these Japanese books published by Media Factory available now.  Lovely photographs !
 
TASHA TUDOR TALKING  No. 2   184 pp photo book with Japanese text   Item 25744  $40.00
TASHA TUDOR TALKING  No. 3   160 pp photo book with Japanese text   Item 25746  $40.00
TASHA TUDOR TALKING  No. 4   160 pp photo book with Japanese text   Item 25748  $40.00
TASHA'S DELIGHTFUL HOUSE  132 pp photo book   With Japanese text.   Item 25750    $59.95
TASHA'S ARTISTIC GARDEN  144 pp photo book  With Japanese text.  Item  25752   $55.00
TASHA'S SKETCHBOOKS  128 pp reproductions With Japanese text.  Item  25754   $75.00
TASHA AND HER CORGIS  104 pp photo book ith Japanese text. 
Item  25756   $40.00
[Tasha Tudor birthday DVD]  DVD 2 with a 48 pp hard cover booklet  NHK TV Item 25758  $80.00
[Tasha Tudor   DVD]  DVD 1 with a 48 pp hard cover booklet  NHK TV Item 25760  $80.00
TT POSTCARD BOOK OF FLOWER PHOTOS  [1] 24 postals  25762  $30.00
TT POSTCARD BOOK OF FLOWER PHOTOS  [2] 24 postals  25764  $30.00
DRAWN FROM NEW ENGLAND  [Japanese version]  Item 25766  $45.00
THE GREAT CORGIVILLE KIDNAPPING [Japanese edition]  Item 25768  $45.00
Do you have art to consign? 
  We are seeking especially art from
The Secret Garden.

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