Buy this book on-line BAUMANN ,KURT: : Dozy and Hawkeye - transl+adapted from the German by Ruth Cornish-Bowen & Paul Langridge:LONDON.HUTCHINSON JUNIOR BOOKS LIMITED,1974. ISBN 0091196302.
UK,slim Qro HB,minus (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn.[The true 1st edn, published as 'Der Schlafhund und der Wachhund',Nord Sud Verlag,Zurich,1972,which was followed by this English 1st edn thus.]VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright,clean,glossy laminated orange background with colour pictorial artwork by Ralph Steadman,illustrated upper bd,black letters/text to non-illustrated rear bd; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping to edges and corners and near immaculate,plain white eps.Spine/ backstrip lightly sunned/faded,the sunning /fading spreads approx 6/10th" (15cms) horizontally inwards from spine/backstrip edge on upper bd and vertically the bd's height too - rest of the front board is unaffected - due to proximity of a similar sized book,preventing further sunning/ fading,when on shelf or in storage.
Corners minimally rubbed with miniscule loss.Some minor indents along both the front+rear top edges; a few minor scoring/
indentations to rear bd,one in particular, vertically from bd's bottom edge up towards the top edge with some minimal coloured paper loss - noticeable but not excessive.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - still an acceptable,collectable state/condition given book's scarcity.UK, slim Qro HB 1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] + feps, includes colour illustrated title-page,colour illustrated dedication page, another 8 single-page colour illus,and 7 full-colour,double-page colour illus - all by Ralph Steadman.
In a small town overrun by mice there lived a man with two dogs.One was very lazy and the other was a perfect watchdog, always alert.They were known as Dozy and Hawkeye.Not only did Dozy sleep all the time but he wouldn't stop growing.It was a great worry to both the man and the people of the town.
However,even the lazy have their uses and it was Dozy that solved the problem of the mice,though not in the way that was originally intended.Ralph Steadman's marvellous illustrations combine with the text to make a delightful and unusual picture book.
Ralph Steadman,born 1936,in Wallasey,near Liverpool.Educated at Abergele Grammar School,North Wales.Apprentice engineer with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. Served in the RAF (1954-56).Caricaturist,
sculptor,painter,printmaker:also writer of music and songs.
Contributor to Punch,Private Eye [UK satirical magazines),The Times and The Daily Telegraph (UK newspapers) [1961-69], to Rolling Stone (1970-79), and the New Statesman (since 1979).A winner of the Francis Williams Illustrations Award (1972) with Alice in Wonderland(1967). Has travelled extensively in America,Canada, Europe and the Orient.
As a caricaturist,Steadman has been influenced by the German expressionist George Grosz and the American Saul Steinberg.He was one of the artists (another was Gerald Scarfe) who,during the 1960's broke away from the tradition of gentlemanly realism established in the 19thC by John Tenniel to explore the realms of passion,fantasy and nightmare. Significantly,perhaps,he took up the challenge of illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', (first illustrated by Tenniel) and proved to be the only 'Alice' illustrator since Arthur Rackham to succeed in creating convincing images that owed nothing to Tenniel's authoraitative iconography.His more recent illustrations to 'Sigmund Freud' have been described as
'the mature work of an artist in sympathy with a genius and through that sympathy finding new reaches in his own capabilities' (Michael McNay: The Guardian,6th July,1982.).
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