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GOODALL,JOHN.S[trickland]**: : Shrewbettina's Birthday

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1970.

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UK,24mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.VG++.No owner inscrptn,but a neat,small,pencilled pre-decimal price of 15/- to top corner of ffe, no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,crisp, clean,glazed,sharp-cornered,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by John S. Goodall,illustrated bds, with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Blue+white illustrated eps with the words Come to a Party on the front eps,and Good Night to the rear ep,with some slight foxing to both sets.To both sets of eps and pastedowns,there is a light, corresponding vertical impression from the edges of the internal half-pagesTop+fore-edges slightly aged/ darkened - as usual/normal - contents though are bright,tight and clean.UK 24mo HB (approx 5.10" tall x 7.25" wide.),32pp (unpaginated) includes colour,pictorial illustrated title-page,an old,aged, sellotape repair to recto of 1st interleaved half-page,15 double-page full-colour,full-page illustrations - all by John S. Goodall - without text,with a small half page between each large page,further advancing the story as the page is turned.A nice,solid,sound example. John Strickland Goodall,born Heacham,Norfolk (UK) after leaving Harrow School,worked in the studios of Sir Arthur Cope RA. and E.Watson Nicol under whom he 'was taught with loving care to be a mid-Victorian art student'.He also studied under Harold Speed and at the Royal Academy Schools (c1930).He concentrated on line drawing in the 1930's, and began to paint in watercolour while stationed in India at the end of WW2.Since then,his extensive travels (e.g. twice round the world on a cargo boat) have provided him with many landscape subjects;he also paints conversation pieces and late 19th-century pastiches in watercolour and gouache.As an illustrator,he works in black and white (sometimes in silhouette),and full colour,turning his 'Victorian' early training to good account in evocative period tableau.In his wordless picture books he evolved an effective method of telling stories by means of half pages placed between each double-page spread.Apart from his childrens' books he is probably better known for the illustrations he provides for the Miss Read 'Thrush Green' novels. Since April,2013,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,24mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.

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