Shaun and the Cart-Horse

Charles Keeping.

Verlag: Oxford University Press 1, 1966

Beschreibung

Shaun and the Cart-Horse, Charles Keeping. Pub. Oxford University Press 1966. First edition. Landscape 290 mm x 220 mm. 32 pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine in lovely fresh clean condition, about fine. Jacket is unclipped and in similarly in lovely condition now in protective removable sleeve. No inscriptions. or blemishes save some minor spotting on the end papers. A a really bright copy of this tale which reflects Keeping [1924-1988]'s own upbringing in working-class Lambeth in the inter war years.The tale of a boy, who recruits the market traders to buy back a beloved horse bound for the knacker's yard. Keeping was a controversial artist, his work, painterly and striking not shying away from the macabre was considered unsuitable for children in some quarters, but he remains one of the finest illustrators in the post war era. Keeping was one of the stable of illustrators encouraged by the editor of Childrens' books at the OUP at the time, Mabel George [1919-2004, editor with the OUP 1956-74]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 807

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Shaun and the Cart-Horse

Verlag: Oxford University Press 1

Erscheinungsdatum: 1966

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition