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The strikingly original and memorable illustrations of Leo and Diane Dillon have delighted and amazed us for more than forty years. Now this magnificent volume collects many of their best works for the first time and provides a magical tour into the studio and the imagination of America's most popular illustrator team.

The creators of fabulous science fiction and fantasy scenes based on the stories of Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and others, the Dillons have won numerous prestigious awards for their book-jacket illustration in the fields of history, children's fantasy, classic literature, folk tales, and contemporary fiction. Their exceptional range of style and technique and their versatility in the use of watercolors, acrylic, pencil, ink, pastels, woodcuts, and stained glass are celebrated here in forty-eight full-color plates and over sixty-five black and white illustrations. With illuminating text by Byron Preiss and commentary by the Dillons themselves, this book will be welcomed and enjoyed by readers and art lovers alike.

Over one hundred and twenty illustrations, including forty-eight color plates, are included, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon) - essay by Harlan Ellison
• The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon - essay by Byron Preiss
• Is Christmas - (1959) - interior artwork
• Lotte Lenya Reads Kafka - (1962) - interior artwork
• The Sea and the Jungle - (1964) - interior artwork
• African Kingdoms, Great Ages of Man - (1966) - interior artwork
• The Wizard of Oz - (1976) - interior artwork
• Queen Zixi of Ix - (1977) - interior artwork
• The Untold Tale - (1970) - interior artwork
• Boy at the Window - (1977) - interior artwork
• Red Dog - (1975) - interior artwork
• The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - (1964) - interior artwork
• Kim - (1976) - interior artwork
• Mystic in Love - (1977) - interior artwork
• Owl Woman - (1978) - interior artwork
• Cricket Woman - (1978) - interior artwork
• Nobody Knows My Name - (1978) - interior artwork
• The Member of the Wedding - (1965) - interior artwork
• Till We Have Faces - (1963) - interior artwork
• Isle of the Dead (original art) - (1968) - interior artwork
• The Left Hand of Darkness (original art) - (1968) - interior artwork
• One Million Tomorrows (original art) - (1970) - interior artwork
• 900 Grandmothers (original art) - (1969) - interior artwork
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - (1974) - interior artwork
• The American Experience: Poetry, Fiction and Non-Fiction - (1974) - interior artwork
• Native Son - (1973) - interior artwork
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (original art) - (1967) - interior artwork
• Different - (1974) - interior artwork
• Child of the Morning (original art) - (1977) - interior artwork
• The Eagle and the Raven (original art) - (1978) - interior artwork
• The Tempest - (1965) - interior artwork
• Henry V - (1966) - interior artwork
• All's Well That Ends Well - (1965) - interior artwork
• As You Like It - (1965) - interior artwork
• The Tempest - (1975) - interior artwork
• Edith Jackson - (1978) - interior artwork
• Ground Zero - (1969) - interior artwork
• No Doors, No Windows (original art) - (1975) - interior artwork
• The Other Glass Teat (original art) - (1975) - interior artwork
• Shatterday (original art) - (1978) - interior artwork (variant of Cover: Shatterday 1980)
• The Illustrated Man, The Veldt, and Marionettes, Inc. - (1975) - interior artwork
• Dying Inside - (1979) - interior artwork
• Animal Magnetism - (1979) - interior artwork
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet (original art) - (1978) - interior artwork
• A Wrinkle in time (original art) - (1979) - interior artwork
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears - (1975) - interior artwork
• Ashanti to Zulu - (1976) - interior artwork
• James and the Giant Peach - (1978) - interior artwork

A retelling of the centuries-old tale follows Sylvia, a spirited girl apprenticed to a sorcerer, as she steals from his castle a powerful potion that she is sure will help her complete the difficult task of sewing garments for all of her master's magical creatures.