Buy this book on-line DURRELL**, GERALD: : BEASTS IN MY BELFRYLONDON.COLLINS,1973. ISBN 0002111780.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Inked gift presentation inscrptn+date (Aug,1973) to ffe and price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-191pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters and an epilogue,profuse b/w illus by Edward Mortelmans throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with epigram to reverse,and contents list/table with Durrell's account of his life at Whipsnade Zoo.
Edward Eugene Louis Mortlemans (b. 1915, London - d. 2008.) Worked as Edward Mortlemans as a watercolourist artist and illustrator.Studied at the Upper Hornsey Road Evening Art Institute; Central Institute of Art and Design; and the Slade School of Fine Art under Randolph Schwabe. A mural painter,advertising artist and illustrator of historical books (for children and adults) and book jackets and paperback covers.
Best known for illustrating some books by Gerald Durrell - 'Catch Me a Colobus.' (1972),'A Bevy of Beasts.' (US,1973) and some covers for paperback books by Edgar Rice Burroughs for Four Square Books including 'The Son of Tarzan','The Beasts of Tarzan' and 'Lost on Venus.' He works in pen and ink or full colour in a naturalistic vein.
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