RHYME STEW. ** [Illustrated by Quentin Blake.**]

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE-.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Quentin Blake,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creases to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - light,superficial scoring to rear panel of dw/dj. Top+fore-edges minimally aged/toned,but bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,original,plain blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,78pp [not all paginated - but all present] includes 15 Quentin Blake b/w line illustrated poems,plus full-page b/w line illustrated half-title page,a b/w vignetted title page,and a Contents list/table. See my book IDs' rja31298 and rja360610 for two similar UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edns of this same title.
Want more Roald DAHL titles? For similar and other available titles,please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue. The Hare likes a flutter,the Tortoise cheats, and they're racing for right of veto on a vegetable patch; the Emperor's new ski clothes tickle the court ladies but leave him cold on the slopes; let loose in the Ritz,Ali Baba open-sesames bedroom doors to find the rich stripped of their assets; and Dick and his cat discover the call of Bow Bells is really a crazy vicar who's a dab hand at fiddling the electrics.
The marvellously dastardly Dahl has joined forces with that bounder Blake to plunder a wealth of nursery heritage for the delight of the older reader in this wonderful addition to the literature of the absurd.
"Raucous,irreverent,inventive,richly colloquial in its language,never afraid to pressgang the inappropriate into its service . . . . pure pleasure." The Times Literary Supplement.
"Beside such full-blooded sky-larking some other books of comic verse look decidely anaemic." The Times.
"The rhymes themselves cross the Grimm Brothers with Raymond Chandler - Little Red Riding Hood keeps a pistol in her knickers, shoots the wolf before he's half-way through his set speech,and under pretence of rescuing the third of the little pigs turns him into a pigskin travelling case by way of an encore - and the pictures are in Quentin Blake's best sardonic style." Margaret Fisher,Sunday Times. Quentin Blake,born 1932,Sidcup,Kent.Son of a civil servant.Educated at Chiselhurst, Sidcup Grammar School and Cambridge University.Attended life classes at Chelsea College of Art.Tutor in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1965-78) and Head of the Illustration Dept since 1978. He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaiety in a few rapid strokes.He has illustrated many editions of the BBC Jackanory television programme.He was chosen as the first Children's Laureate in 1999.
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