ROALD DAHL's REVOLTING RHYMES.** [Illus by Quentin Blake.**]

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated,reprint edn. [Cape,1982 is the true first edn, this the 10th reprint,1999.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price removal from rear board.Sharp-cornered,crisp,clean, glazed boards with Quentin Blake colour pictorial illustrations, with brown+black lettering to front panel +spine,near immaculate plain,pale beige endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though rear panel with some minor scoring.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illkustrated,reprint,32pp [unpaginated and excluding endpapers] includes colour illustration by Quentin Blake to title page,6 nursery rhyme parodies: Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf and The Three Little Pigs,12 full-colour, full-page illustrations and monochrome illustrations to page borders/edges - all by Quentin Blake throughout the text and the book. Roald Dahl's own favourite and principal illustrator, Blake illustrated several other books of the author's work,during the author's lifetime,and these illustrations bring considerable enchantment to this book.
Want more Roald DAHL titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue. 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 1978 -1986,and is now a visiting professor.He was honoured with an OBE in 1988.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.Whilst he illustrated many of his own works,he is renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl.Quentin Blake was the first Children's Laureate from 1999-2001.
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