Dark green cloth. xii + 236 pp. As issued except for miniscule nick in front dust jacket flap fold. Size: 8vo - over 7ž" - 9ž" tall. Seller Inventory # 006246

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Title: Charming the Bones: A Portrait of Margaret ...

Publisher: Kent State University Press, Kent, OH

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

Born in 1911 to an unconventional, free-spirited artist mother and an eminent paleontologist father, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. She began her career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drawing fossil bones, and there she met her husband, the noted paleontologist Edwin (Ned) Colbert.

Charming the Bones portrays Margaret’s life as the wife of a famous man and the mother of five sons and, later in her life, as a respected restoration artist, illustrator, and sculptor.

Margaret Matthew Colbert’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures grace museums worldwide and enable the general public, as well as professional paleontologists, to visualize extinct creatures.

About the Author:

Ann Brimacombe Elliot is a freelance writer and editor. She and Margaret Matthew colbert have been acquainted for nearly 30 years.

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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. Hours by appointment or chance April through October, closed winters. Do drop by and browse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. If traveling from a distance, please call ahead to be sure that we're not off at another auction! Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel.

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