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HOBAN**, RUSSELL & BLAKE**, QUENTIN: : Trouble on Thunder Mountain

LONDON.FABER & FABER,1999.

ISBN 0571193595.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Quentin Blake; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Dw/dj design repeated to clean,glossy boards with immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.Small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-40pp [paginated] includes colour pictorial illustrated title page,a double-page colour illustrated frntis,9 double-page and 4 full-page,full-colour illus by Quentin Blake and part-page illustration to other remaining pages.Pp7/8 has small dog-ear crease to top corner. When Mr Flatbrain flattens their mountain to make way for a plastic mountain theme park,the O'Saurus family is not defeated.With the help of their animal friends and two or three thousand ants they rebuild Thunder Mountain and prepare for visitors.Which mountain will draw the crowds? Russell Hoban,American author,resident in Britain since 1969.Born Russell Conwell Hoban in Lansdale,Pennsylvania,in 1925.Studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, subsequently working as an illustrator and advertising copywriter. As well as his many children's books - several of them illustrated by his first wife,Lillian - he has written a number of adult novels,notably The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973) and Riddley Walker (1980). Quentin Blake,British author-illustrator,born Sidcup,Kent,in 1932.Illustrated his own work and that of many others,notably Roald Dahl.He was a tutor at the Royal College of Art from 1965 to 1988.He won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Mr Magnolia,the Kurt Maschler Award for All Join In and the International Bologna Ragazzi Prize for Clown.He was awarded the OBE in 1988.He was also appointed the first Children's Laureate in May 1999. He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakeable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaeity in a few rapid strokes. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

HOBAN**, RUSSELL & BLAKE**, QUENTIN: : Trouble on Thunder Mountain.**

LONDON.FABER & FABER,1999.

ISBN 0571193595.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Quentin Blake; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no major nicks,tears or splits present - one tiny closed tear with rubbing at head of spine/backstrip's rear-facing gutter's fold/crease on rear panel of dw/dj - no others present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Dw/dj design repeated to clean,sharp-cornered,glossy boards with immaculate plain pale blue endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-40pp [paginated] includes colour pictorial illustrated title page,a double-page colour illustrated frntis,9 double-page and 4 full-page,full-colour illus by Quentin Blake and part-page illustration to other remaining pages. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e a child's book,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a higher grading for the dw/dj.Despite that,it still really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleaniness. When Mr Flatbrain flattens their mountain to make way for a plastic mountain theme park,the O'Saurus family is not defeated.With the help of their animal friends and two or three thousand ants they rebuild Thunder Mountain and prepare for visitors.Which mountain will draw the crowds? Russell Hoban,American author,resident in Britain since 1969.Born Russell Conwell Hoban in Lansdale,Pennsylvania,in 1925.Studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, subsequently working as an illustrator and advertising copywriter. As well as his many children's books - several of them illustrated by his first wife,Lillian - he has written a number of adult novels,notably The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973) and Riddley Walker (1980). Quentin Blake,British author-illustrator,born Sidcup,Kent,in 1932. Illustrated his own work and that of many others,notably Roald Dahl. He was a tutor at the Royal College of Art from 1965 to 1988.He won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Mr Magnolia,the Kurt Maschler Award for All Join In and the International Bologna Ragazzi Prize for Clown.He was awarded the OBE in 1988.He was also appointed the first Children's Laureate in May 1999. He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakeable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaeity in a few rapid strokes. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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