Buy this book on-line GOSCINNY**, RENE & UDERZO**, ALBERT: : ASTERIX: THE COLLECTION - Asterix in Britain. **LONDON.HATCHETTE PARTWORKS LTD.,2005. ISBN 17448476000401A.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,glazed boards as issued,illustrated,1st edn thus. [Originally published in 1966,Goscinny/Uderzo under title of 'Asterix chez les Bretons'.Revised UK edn, published by ORION,2004,this UK special edn, published Hatchette,2005.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork illustrated upper board by UDERZO,with red+white letters to same and to the spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to corners - both head+foot of spine/ backstrip unaffected - immaculate blue+ white cartoon illustrated endpapers.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.UK,slim Qrto HB,glazed boards as issued,illustrated,1st thus,5-48pp [paginated] includes title page,colour map of Gaul,verso of which has colour cartoon characters with potted biographies of each, colour strip-cartoon story with English text. Translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. Written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo.
One small village in Britain still holds out against the Roman invaders.But with no magic potion, they need help,so Asterix's cousin Anticlimax comes to Gaul seeking aid.
Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo were a French writer/artist team.Born 1925 and 1927 respectively,the two men have - together or separately - worked on many comic strips,but are best known for their series of books featuring the 'indomitable Gaul' Asterix.He made his first appearance in the French magazine,Pilote,in 1959,and has since featured in well over two dozen books.Goscinny also created the characters Lucky Luke,Ompa-pa,Iznogoud and Nicholas,albeit in collaboration with other artists.He died in 1977.UDERZO died 24/03/20 aged 92.
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