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Buy this book on-line MORPURGO,MICHAEL**: : BILLY THE Kid.[Author+illustrator SIGNED copy.]LONDON.,PAVILION BOOKS LIMITED,2000. ISBN 1862053618.
UK,landscape,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,author & illustrator SIGNED,1st edn.[Precedes the UK,rectangular 8vo,b/w illustrated p/back, 1st edition published by Collins in 2002.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but both author and illustrator black ink signatures: 'for Freddie Michael Foreman and Michael Morpurgo' (dedication in Foreman's hand) to half-title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman illustrated dw/dj with blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation? Dw/dj design repeated to publisher's sharp-cornered glazed bds with immaculate monochrome photographic illustrated eps.UK,landscape,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,author & illustrator SIGNED,1st edn, 5-71pp [paginated] includes profuse colour +sepia illustrations by Michael Foreman throughout the text and the book, author's notes/glossary with illustrator's vignettes,plus [unpaginated] colour vignetted author+illustrator SIGNED half- title page,colour illustrated title page, and colour vignetted dedication page. See also my book ID rja23136 for UK,8vo,b/w illustrated p/back,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Billy was a champion soccer star,playing for Chelsea in the 1930s.But that was before war broke out.This tale is told through the voice of an 80 year-old man, who looks back on his life as Chelsea's champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and then on through his subsequent life.
Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk, 1938.Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art (1963-65),the London College of Printing (1967-8),the Royal College of Art (1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1972). Art Director of Playboy magazine,Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966).
Painter,etcher,illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive: he often works in colour or halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery,ostensibly decorative,humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones.He was winner of first prize in the Francis Williams Book Illustrations Award (1972+1977) and the Silver Eagle Prize at the Festival International du Livre,Nice,France (1972), the Graphics Prize at Bologna (1982) and the Kurt Maschler Award (1982),winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal.
His recent book 'War Boy' (then 1989) had just won him the Kate Greenaway Medal for a second time.
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