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STONE**, BERNARD: : EMERGENCY MOUSE.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.ANDERSEN PRESS LTD.,1978.

ISBN 0905478312.

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),author SIGNED copy.[The true 1st edn,that was then followed a year later,1979 in France as 'Souris en blanc' by Les Editions de La Murelle and Editions Gallimard,1980.A UK,Sparrow Books p/back 1st edn thus, appeared,1981.This book was also translated into Dutch,German,Italian, Japanese and Swedish.] VG+.Ink author signature to title-page,under book's title and above his printed name.No owner inscrptn.Glossy,pictorial colour illustrated/decorated card bds by Ralph Steadman,with minimal shelf-wear.Lightly rubbed,scuffed head+foot of spine/ backstrip and a small nick/tear to front foot,and same to head of rear bd.Both rear corners lightly bumped with light rubbing/ scuffing.Front bd,to bottom edge,has a small (approx 3" ) centrally placed, vertical laminate crease (production fault?).Top+fore-edges clean,contents tight and generally clean with no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners. Described hard but fairly,and the volume looks better than it sounds! An uncommon, author signed copy.UK,8vo HB(approx 9.50" tall x 8.25" wide),no dw/dj - as issued, 24pp [unpaginated] and excluding eps,and b/w+colour illustrations by Ralph Steadman. The first and the most uncommon title of this Mouse trilogy (others are Inspector Mouse and Quasimodo Mouse) by this author/ artist collaboration.See rja498212, 'Inspector Mouse',for another title in this trilogy. Charming story of a little boy admitted to hospital for an operation.As he's about to fall asleep,he's thinking of his own pet mouse Whitey and then suddenly he noticed several tiny lights above little doors in the skirting board.Suddenly the doors open and mice dressed as doctors and nurses wheel out a lot of little beds and pushed them into rows.The mice were taking over the hospital for the night,setting up their own ward with a mouse surgeon and doctors and nurses to take care of all the mouse patients. . . . . Ralph Steadman,born 1936,in Wallasey,near Liverpool.Educated at Abergele Grammar School,North Wales.Apprentice engineer with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. Served in the RAF (1954-56).Caricaturist, sculptor,painter,printmaker: also writer of music and songs.Contributor to Punch, Private Eye [UK satirical magazines),The Times and The Daily Telegraph (UK newspapers) [1961-69],to Rolling Stone (1970-79),and the New Statesman (since 1979).A winner of the Francis Williams Illustrations Award (1972) with Alice in Wonderland (1967).Has travelled extensively in America,Canada,Europe and the Orient. As a caricaturist,Steadman has been influenced by the German expressionist George Grosz and the American Saul Steinberg.He was one of the artists (another was Gerald Scarfe) who,during the 1960's broke away from the tradition of gentlemanly realism established in the 19thC by John Tenniel to explore the realms of passion,fantasy and nightmare. Significantly,perhaps,he took up the challenge of illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', (first illustrated by Tenniel) and proved to be the only 'Alice' illustrator since Arthur Rackham to succeed in creating convincing images that owed nothing to Tenniel's authoritative iconography.His more recent illustrations to 'Sigmund Freud' have been described as 'the mature work of an artist in sympathy with a genius and through that sympathy finding new reaches in his own capabilities' (Michael McNay: The Guardian,6th July,1982.). Since April,2013,and in March 2015,and again in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,SIGNED,1st
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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