Dream Boats and Other Stories (1920)

Designs by Dugald Stewart Walker

To the left is shown a rare copy of Dream Boats and Other Stories, a wonderful work written and illustrated by Dugald Walker - as published by Doubleday, Page & Company (New York) in 1918.   This copy shows the original decoratively blue-stamped blue cloth cover.             On the right is the wonderfully decorative Title Page designed by Walker.

Dream Boats and Other Stories is a collection of some of the literary work of Dugald Walker, including fantasy histories

of fauns, fishes, fairies and other pleasant creatures. One lovely element of the book is the final portion, a play written

by Walker, "Dream Boats".

Walker provides his own introduction to Dream Boats and Other Stories  in his Foreword, entitled, "The Sunlit Sea":

There is a far-away blue sea of unending wonder and belief. A fragile craft is launched

from a Mother's arms, upon its waters. You are the helmsman of the vessel and you

are the guardian.

Safely through tempests and gales and over stretches of Sunlit waters you must pilot

the ship. The path is strewn with icebergs, wreckage and many boats making for the

same harbour. All the little ships make their trial voyage through the white-capped,

dancing waves of "Let's Play" and "Let's Pretend".

Back into the bay of youth, where lies the haven of a Mother's arms, each little vessel

will drift if the pilot does not stupidly keep his wheel turned to the point on the

compass the reads Grow-up-South by As-far-as-you-can-East. The craft laden with a

cargo, that is your heart, will surely return to the pleasant waters of youth unless you

are grown up so high you cannot become as a little child.

If you wish, and wish with all your heart, you can come to join us in our play, which

in honour of the waves of "Let's Pretend", through which I hope your little craft has

passed, I have called "Dream Boats".

Walker's accompanying illustrations - in colour, multitone and monotone - are breathtaking. It is superb work that, true

to the author and illustrator's wishes, will delight children of all ages.

Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Prints
 

For connoisseurs of Walker's work, we have prepared sets of 5 Greeting Cards displaying colour images from his designs for Dream Boats and Other Stories and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear.     Code: DW DBOS CS(5) Price: US$25.00

Similarly, we have prepared sets of 16 Greeting Cards displaying the major monotone images from Walker's designs for Dream Boats and Other Stories and on the right, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear.             Code: DW DBOS MS(16) Price: US$80.00

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-on plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted

approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century. Each card is

hand-finished and the images are presented on Ivory card stock (in the case of colour illustrations) or White card stock

(in the case of monotone illustrations) with an accompanying envelope. The rear of each card carries information

about Dugald Walker, this wonderful suite and the profiled illustration - we have left the interior of the cards blank so

that you may write your own personal message.

Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print of one or more of these images, we have provided some options below.

Each of these large format prints is also accompanied by information about Dugald Walker, this suite and the profiled

illustration.

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In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful images from Dugald Walker.

The colour illustrations

Dream Boats She tied my boat to the North Star so I would not grow up while she was gone.	Second Teeth And pipe the little songs that are inside of bubbles.	Butterfly's Nightmare Lest a nightmare should come to the fairies' cousin twice removed on their mother's side.	Warfare The Mobilization of the Fairy Army.
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Untitled Closing Illustration
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The major monotone illustrations

Storks Up there, sits One - I can't remember much about her.	Pollen People In the commonplace corners of the earth there may be a pair of pollen lovers.	The Grandmother Bush Why it rains to-morrow.	The Reluctant Mirrors Perhaps being so shiny they were mistaken by the fairies for mirrors.
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Giving Thanks The oak finds happiness in providing a refreshing drink for migrating fairies.	Snakedoctor An anodyne for swooning fairy ladies is to be carried past cardinal birds singing on a wisteria vine.	Stay-at-home Heart The sea-green bird sank so low that the foam of the waves dashed against its breast.	The Comet's Tail Calling it a tail did not make it one.
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The Daughter of the Comet King Comet ladies drift dreamingly across the sky.	One of the Common Decencies of Ordinary Social Intercourse One of the Common Decencies of Ordinary Social Intercourse.	The Magic Dewdrop What was his amazement to find that the fountain was flowing over a maiden.	Cold Porridge The little boy kissed the spot and made it all well.
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On June Winds A fragile craft, piloted by a fairy, perched like a star.	Snapdragons It is watering time for the thirsting flock of pink and yellow dragons.	Sweet April When buds are breaking and birds singing merrily, dance with me.	Autumn's Colour Whence do the elves of the autumn get all the colour they need with which to paint the flowers, fruits and foliage?
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