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DUNMORE**, HELEN: : THE ISLANDERS.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.MABECRON BOOKS,2011.

ISBN 9780956435026.

UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,SIGNED black ink signature - without dedication - to colour illustrated double-paged title page,no price removal to rear cover,no dw/dj - as issued. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Rebecca Cobb,illustrated boards with b/w lettering to spine and red+black lettering to sharp-cornered bds and double-paged colour illustrated endpapers; all with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Minor, superficial,minimal scoring to either cover.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj (as issued),author SIGNED,1st edn,36pp [unpaginated] includes endpapers - all with full colour part,single and double-page illustrations by Rebecca Cobb, throughout with accompanying text. Want more or similar Helen DUNMORE titles? Please search my SIGNED catalogues for examples. The 2nd of Helen's 4 picture books following 'The Ferry Birds' (2010). For another,but author+illustrator SIGNED example of this same title - see my book ID rja812218. Helen Dunmore (b.1952 - d.2017) wrote her first novel 'Zennor in Darkness' (1993).She won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction for her second novel 'A Spell of Winter' and her other bestselling fiction included the novels 'The Siege.','The Betrayal.' (Booker Prize nominee) and 'Exposure.'. 'Birdcage Walk' was her last novel. Dunmore also wrote books for children and YA readers (1992- 2002) - excluding her picture books which followed 2010-2017, including the novels that form the Ingo Chronicles.Also an award-winning poet,her final collection,'Inside the Wave',written in the months leading up to her death,is both a meditation on mortality and a celebration of life in all its quirkiness and outcomes. Rebecca Cobb,a British children's book illustrator.She grew up in Buckinghamshire and Somerset and now lives in Falmouth.Along with writing and illustrating her own books,and after graduating from Falmouth Arts College in 2004, she has also collaborated with other authors including Julia Donaldson,Richard Curtis and Helen Dunmore amongst others.After graduating, she has worked with The Child Bereavement Charity,Continuum Publishing Group,The Guardian, The Independent,Mabecron Books - this item's publisher,Marion Boyars Publishers,Waitrose Food Illustrated and You Magazine. Her first solo project,'Missing Mummy' was published in 2011 by Macmillan Publishers and centres around the theme of child bereavement. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim rectangular Qrto HB,no dw/dj (as issued),author SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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