This Bridge Will Not Be Gray SIGNED
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2015.
Hardcover. Signed by Dave Eggers in ink to bookplate at front free endpaper. Third Printing. 8 1/4" X 10 1/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine and front cover stamped in silver and orange. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A presentable signed early printing.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Picture Books of 2015.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world’s first bright-orange bridge. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way.
In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happened how a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks to the vision and stick-to-itiveness of a few peculiar architects, one of the most memorable man-made objects ever created.
Told with playful paper cut-outs and irresistible prose, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray is a joyful history lesson in picture-book form a gorgeously crafted story that teaches us how beauty and inspiration tend to come from the most unexpected places. Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in, even if it’s just a color. (Publisher). Very good / very good. Item #17025
ISBN: 9781452162805
Price: $16.00