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MILLER, IAN: : Green Dog Trumpet and other Stories

UK.SURREY.DRAGON'S DREAM,1978.

ISBN 9063325517.

UK,Qrto wraps,1st edn.Softback original. [Paperback/softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.]NFINE.Appears an unread copy as there are no spine/ backstrip creases.No owner inscrptn. Pictorial colour illustrated wrap-around artwork wraps by Ian Miller; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing or bumping to both the edges and spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges clean; contents pristine and tight.Qrto,90pp [unpaginated] includes title page,contents list,an intro+ potted biography,colour illustration to each page with no text to stories.The five illustrated stories include: Green Dog Trumpet, The Snake Woman, The Triwag Chronicles, The Pequod Saga and Trolley Dog Shag. Ian Miller sets tales of thwarted heroism and misadventure in a nursery landscape which is also a Gothic hell.This nursery is a playful but ruthless place.It is the home of perverse, grossly lustful, fiendish toys.Menacing amalgams of birds, insects and battle machines fly through its sky, or trundle through its undergrowth.They bristle with fearsome artillery, snort steam and belch out mysterious passengers, while crunching and crushing each other into oblivion.In gloomy woods and marshland,tattered heroes lop and stab at each other with rusty weapons.When brains or bellies burst open, monsters and warriors gleefully leap free - only to recommence the cycle.In these stories, twisted towers, high mountain passes and crumbling Gothic cities sizzle with foreboding.Epic battles release this paranoiac tension - only to intensify it. Redemption is short circuited.The innocents slaughter the stormtroopers. Beauty eats the beast.Doom breaks out of the shell of virtue. Ian Miller's comic strip fantasies are microcosms of nervous unease.He sardonically double-bluffs us; offers our expectations sweets and toys,then strangles them to the sound of hollow laughter.There is humour in his world, but it is black;there is also logic, but it is the enclosed logic of the asylum. Captions for his pictures may be found in the novels of Franz Kafka or Kurt Vonnegut; perhaps even in The Book of Revelations.For these are twentieth century fairy tales.Like other fairy tales,they dissolve the order and emotions of our present moment in space and time to involve us in the mythic quest.But the quest leads back to its starting point. That point is the bitterness of failure;a sense of loss,of disillusionment and ironic unfulfilment. Ian Miller's world is the world of Arthur Rackham or Heath Robinson after a nuclear holocaust.All that endures in his stories is the innocent or non-human;nursery toys and puppets, the forest glade and fitful volcano. Since becoming a commercial illustrator in 1970, Ian Miller has designed book covers for stories by Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Poul Anderson, H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, amongst others.He has had two exhibitions in London, one at the Greenwich Theatre Gallery in 1973, the other at the Jordan gallery in 1974.In 1976, a drawing he made of Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" came to the attention of American animated film maker, Ralph Bakshi, of "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" fame.Ian Miller worked with him on a feature film called "Wizards", which has recently (then 1978) been released. Please contact seller, because of the value of this item, for correct, insured 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 or FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p FREE.Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA 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,Qrto wraps(s/back original),1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

MILLER, Ian : Green Dog Trumpet and Other Stories

Dragon's Dream, 1978

A fine copy in the original thin card pictorial wrappers as issued,

First Edition

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