This Is My Wish for You: Deluxe Edition (Hardcover)

by Welleran Poltarnees (Author)

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Product Description
Frequently one wishes to say to another, "I wish you the best of everything." This book delivers this message with power and sincerity. Welleran Poltarnees has taken Snell¹s text and selected a painting or illustration for each wish, giving additional life to an already marvelous text. We assert, without exaggeration, that this is the nearly perfect gift book.

DELUXE EDITION This book has been so popular as a gift that we have created a deluxe edition. It is bound in cloth, has an embossed, full-color label on its front cover, and resides in a slipcase.

From the Inside Flap
This a book created to be given. At its center is a poem by Charles Snell which was written for and published in, 1914 as a small gift book. In it the giver, in a series of concrete images, extends the recipient many good wishes.

In our volume, Snell's words are presented within borders made by Daniel Maclise for a book entitled Moore's Irish Melodies, published in 1846.

We have selected images to accompany each wish. These are made by a great variety of painters and illustrators, and range over more than 150 years.

This Is My Wish for You is in the tradition of ancient blessings, in which one tries, through the power of language, to throw a mantle of protection and beneficence over the receiver.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Laughing Elephant; Deluxe edition (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883211131
• ISBN-13: 978-1883211134
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,246,695 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A feel good book, January 22, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Hobe Sound, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This is My Wish for You (Hardcover)

As an artist and writer and avid reader; I love this book. I read it whenever I want to feel good. I can't wait until Christmas to give it to my artist friends. It is truly one of the most beautiful books I have ever seeen. The art images are beautiful and the spirit of the book is beautiful. I sent it to my new grandson and hope all these wishes come true for him. I can't wait to read it to him when he is older.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book struck a nerve!, November 10, 1998

By	[e-mail] (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This is My Wish for You (Hardcover)

Have you ever experienced the strange sensation that a certain book on the shelves of a store or library has been sitting there waiting patiently for your arrival? It is almost as if the book were waiting there to discover you rather than the other way around. This was my own experience several weeks ago when I entered a small shop called "Through the Garden Gate," which is located in Red Bank, New Jersey. Once inside the shop, it was as if the book's title and cover caught my attention at the same moment. Once I had picked the book up and comprehended its significance, I knew I must buy it whatever it might cost. For me, this book illustrates and articulates the very finest sentiments one might wish to express to anyone one loves a great deal. In this instance, that someone was a newly arrived grand daughter by the name of Lily Grace. So I purchased the book at a very modest price and several days later had the privilege of reading it to Lily. This is indeed a very special book, a book created to be given. One would find it, I believe, both a joy and a blessing either to give or to receive, and that, dear reader, is my wish for you.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soothed My Grief, February 22, 2000

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This review is from: This is My Wish for You (Hardcover)

A precious friend gave this to me just after my father died last month. It was the most timely, wonderful thing I have ever received. It expressed her desire to comfort and protect me and her understanding that what I was going through wasn't easy....and there wasn't much she could do except show me she cared. What a gift.