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UK,48mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1stedn,Pop-up book.FINE.Small ink squiggle to first 2pp,else contents fine.No inscrptn,no pop-ups or tabs damaged or missing - all intact.Pictorial coloured decorated laminated boards,dw/dj not issued,coloured pop-ups,moveables inside.
Jan Pienkowski's continues with masterpiece pop-ups,along with Haunted House and ROBOT.
Jan Michel Pienkowski,born 1936,Warsaw,Poland: childhood spent in Austria,Germany and Italy.Educated in England and Wales.Read Classics and English at King's College,Cambridge
and studied in London.Founder director (1961) of Gallery Five Ltd.,greetings card and publishers.As an illustrator of children's books,he works in bold colours and simplified shapes,sometimes (as in the Meg and Mog series) adopting a childlike drawing style.Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal with Joan Aiken's 'Kingdom under the Sea' (1971) and with his own pop-up book… Read More