JABBERWOCKY - Illus by Joel Stewart.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,colour illustrated,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptm and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,colour pictorial artwork by Joel Stewart, illustrated dw/dj with part matt (background) and glossy,oval,colour illustrated vignette to front panel with dark brown lettering,matt rear panel with colour pictorial illustration; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp -cornered,repeated dw/dj illustration+lettering to original paper-covered boards and plain pink(?) endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj, colour illustrated,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] includes colour illustrated half-title page,double-paged colour illustrated title page,single page monochrome oval vignetted poem with oval monochrome vignette illustration facing the poem,13 double-paged,full colour,full page illustrations - all by Joel Stewart - with accompanying text.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe. So begins one of the most celebrated and best-loved nonsense poems in the English language, "Jabberwocky", which first appeared in 1872 in Lewis Carroll's classic Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.For well over a century,the poem's mysterious and intensely musical lines have delighted the ears of both young and old,but there have been few attempts to render the poem in picture book form.Using a technique of digital collage,and mixed media techniques,Joel Stewart reveals a natural affinity with Carroll's vision, capturing with great wit and imagination the extraordinary world of the poem and its memorable creatures: the Jubjub bird,the frumious Bandersnatch and the manxome Jabberwock. "Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
Lewis Carroll,(pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,1832-1898), taught mathematics at Christ Church College,Oxford.He is the author of two of the classic stories of children's literature: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) (a Kate Greenaway Medal-winning edition of which is published by Walker Books) and 'Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There' (1872). These books contained many of his most popular poems,including "Jabberwocky", "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "How Does the Little Crocodile?"
Joel Stewart grew up in Sheffield and was awarded a First Class BA Hons degree in Illustration at Falmouth College of Arts.Since graduating he has illustrated several titles,including the widely acclaimed Walker picture book 'Adventures of a Nose',written by his girlfriend,Viviane Schwarz.Joel lives in Falmouth,Cornwall with Viviane and several goldfish. Please contact seller,becsause of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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