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Spend this holiday with Winston Churchill,
James Thurber, E. B. White—and Levenger
DELRAY BEACH, FL · November 26, 2007–
Churchill’s pig,
Thurber’s dog and
E.B. White’s timelessness
have been transformed into gifts to make the holidays all the more memorable. Levenger has created bookends from the pig and the dog, and published a
book of near-forgotten essays by E.B. White.
All are easily available from Levenger and not found anywhere else.
Bookends of four-legged friends
"I like pigs," Churchill once declared. "Cats look down on human beings, dogs look up to them, but pigs just treat us as their equals."
That saying features prominently on the base of the bookend that the British sculptor Jon Bickley has created. Bickley fashioned his pig from
Churchill’s drawings of the creature. "Pig" was the pet name that Churchill’s wife gave him, and "Kat" was his for her.
Bickley has included a drawing of a cat on the base, which resembles a brick. In his spare time, Churchill was a bricklayer.
Authorized by Churchill Heritage, the bronze-finished bookend pays weighty tribute to the lighter side of Sir Winston.
Ever the faithful hound, James Thurber’s unnamed dog started life as a 2-D doodle and is now a 3-D pair of bookends. Re-created from one of the great
American humorist’s drawings, each dog is attached to a sculpture of one of his master’s books on canines.
Thurber’s family helped to get every dogged detail right; a portion of the proceeds benefits the nonprofit Thurber House.
E. B. White’s timely notes
The master stylist was also an uncanny futurist. These 24 essays, gathered under the rubric Notes on Our Times, deal with topics that are as timely
now as when he wrote them for The New Yorker more than 50 years ago: taxes, censorship, home, fears, desires, and the inevitable triumph of crab grass.
The work had been out of print for years until now.
This newest entry in the Levenger Press line of exclusive books features 24 illustrations; the one on the cover is drawn from a photo of White’s
typewriter at Cornell University. Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster who also writes for abc.com, wrote the
foreword.
To order these and other exclusive gifts, go to Levenger.com or call 800.544.0880.
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