Talk:Joe and Beth Krush

Authority control data

Joe at Library of Congress Authorities --a useful catalog entry point

Beth at LC Authorities

--P64 (talk) 21:10, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

I added templates {{Authority control}} to the personal redirects Joe Krush and Beth Krush. --P64 (talk) 21:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Solo works

HB = Harcourt, Brace or another version of Harcourt (publisher)

WorldCat conveniently reports the 20 most widely held works (sometimes including variant titles) in participating libraries. Listings #1-14 on the Krush lists are identical and all 20 for Beth were illustrated jointly. Joe has three others:

• 15. Body in the Brillstone garage, Florence Parry Heide & Roxanne Heide (A. Whitman, 1979)
• 17. Ol' Dan Tucker, retold John M. Langstaff (HB, 1963)
• 18. Black magic at Brillstone, Florence Parry Heide & Roxanne Heide (A. Whitman, 1981)[1]

The Heide books have cover and frontispiece by Joe Krush. The Langstaff is a color picture book.

Library of Congress online catalog shows 54 records for Beth, 57 for Joe, 49 of which are identical if i skim correctly. (These are not complete lists and they include multiple editions of Borrowers and some other titles.) When sorted by "Date (oldest to newest)" these are their unique listings.

• Beth: 1, 5, 8, 13, 45,
• Joe: 4, 24-25-26-28-30, 46, 55

Five of Joe's unique listigs are cover-and-frontispiece for Brillstone mysteries by Florence Parry Heide & Roxanne Heide.

The Borrowers (U.S., 1953) is #2 for Beth, #1 for Joe, in those LC catalog listings. The only earlier work in the catalog is

• Mr. Doodle [by Sally Scott?], illustrated by Beth Krush (HB, 1947), 45pp[2]

At least three items in the Beth & Joe and Beth collected papers at UMN have 1952 dates, preceding The Borrowers. Two are books.

• American Junior Red Cross News Dec. 1952 (cover illustration, Beth) --
• Binky's Fire 1952 [--Sally Scott, ill. Beth (HB, 1952)]
• The Magic Circle: stories and people in poetry 1952 [--Louis Untermeyer, ill. Beth & Joe (HB, 1952), 288pp]

Hasty web search provides the bracketed data.

ISFDB lists only the Borrowers cover and interior art for Beth, three other listings only for Joe.

• Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns, Wilbur Schramm (HB, 1947)
• Huon of the Horn, Andre Norton (HB, 1951)
• Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer (Harper, 1999)

WorldCat: Magic Elizabeth (Viking, 1966), ill. Joe Krush

Sally Scott at LC Authorities --with 25 catalog records

If i skim correctly, Beth Krush is the sole illustrator for 16 distinct titles 1947–1963 (picture books for very young kids, i guess); Joe Krush for one title (Chica (HB, 1954), 114pp)

LC catalog should report all of these books for Krush as well as for Scott but it does not.

In the article we now identify only the two Eudora Welty books as solo illustrations, The Ponder Heart (HB, 1954) for Joe; The Shore Bird (U Mississippi, 1964) for Beth.google books with Beth blurb

--P64 (talk) 20:07, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

LC also credits Joseph Krush for one work:

* María Cristina Mena, Boy heroes of Chapultepec, a story of the Mexican War (Winston, 1953), 182 pp LCC 52014252

1953 is also the earliest work by Beth & Joe Krush in LC catalog, namely The Borrowers.

Probably that Joseph Krush is Joe Krush. --P64 (talk) 02:42, 12 April 2016 (UTC)