THE GENERAL.
by FOREMAN, Michael (illustrator), story by Janet Charters.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.. FIRST EDITION OF ARTIST'S FIRST BOOK 1961. 4to, 270 x 205 mm, 10½ x 8 inches, colour illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, no pagination. Coloured illustration filling every page, some double page. Anti-war story for young children, about a famous general who found he loved flowers. No inscriptions, tail of spine and lower corners a touch rubbed, otherwise near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, cream area lightly darkened, tiny chip at head of spine, tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed, very slight rubbing on upper hinge and along lower edges, 1 short closed tear at top edge of lower panel with adjacent creasing). Foreman's first picture book illustrated in The Telling Line page 191. The author was the first wife of Foreman, also an artist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47295
- Title
- THE GENERAL.
- Author
- FOREMAN, Michael (illustrator), story by Janet Charters.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S BOOK ANTI-WAR PICTURE ILLUSTRATED MICHAEL FOREMAN
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