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ARDIZZONE**, EDWARD: : THE ADVENTURES OF TIM

LONDON.CHANCELLOR PRESS,1985.

ISBN 0907486932.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj by Edward Ardizzone; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Miniscule rubbing with reciprocal loss to both top corners - no other nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped,again with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Dw/dj design repeated to glossy laminated boards with clean,plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,16-300pp [paginated] includes half-title page,Ardizzone colour illustrated vignetted title page,contents list/table, introduction to 'Tim',profuse b/w+colour illustrations - all by Ardizzone - throughout the book and the text. As an omnibus,the book contains the following 6 stories/adventures: 'Tim and Ginger': Tim and Ginger love to sit with the old boatman,who tells them tales about the sea,ships and dangerous tides.Ginger, however pays no attention to the old man's warnings,and,one day he is trapped by the tide.Tim has to come to the rescue. . . , 'Tim and Charlotte': Charlotte is washed ashore near Tim's house one day and Tim, resourceful as ever,comes to her rescue. Charlotte eventually becomes one of the family.However,trouble begins when Charlotte's true identity is discovered. 'Tim's Friend Towser': Tim and Ginger are cabin boy's on the S.S. Royal Fusilier.One day they find a strange stowaway - a tiny puppy.Tim and Ginger love their new friend,but they have one enormous problem - Captain Piper hates dogs! 'Tim to the Lighthouse': One dark stormy night little Tim wakes up to find that there is no light shining from the lighthouse near his home.Ships passing in the night might be wrecked on the treacherous rocks.Brave Tim sets out with his old friend Captain McFee to solve the mystery of the lighthouse. 'Tim in Danger': When Ginger tires of being a landlubber and runs away to sea, Tim and Charlotte set out in search of their friend,and finally,'Tim All Alone': One day Tim arrives back at his home by the sea.He has been on a long holiday. Imagine his surprise when he finds his house locked and shuttered and no sign of his parents! Tim sets out to solve this mystery and has some hair raising adventures along the way.Here for the first time are six of the famous 'TIM' stories together in one volume.These delightful tales of one little boy's adventures have given many children pleasure over the years and ensured Edward Ardizzone's position as one of the great children's illustrators. Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,1900- 1979,worked as Edward Ardizzone.Born in Haiphong,China,the son of an employee of the Eastern Telegrah Company,the eldest of five children.He lived in the Far East until he was five and then moved with his family to England.Ardizzone lived in Ipswich until he was 14,'and it was here', he wrote,'that I learnt to know and love the little coastal steamers that I have drawn so often in the TIM books.' He attended evening classes in life drawing given by Bernard Meninsky at Westminster School of Art,while employed as a statistical clerk in London (1916-26).He worked freelance as an illustrator from 1926,achieving widespread recognition with his first children's book 'Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain(1936),the first of the famous TIM books. Served in the Royal Artillery(1939-40); Official War Artist(1940-45), noted for his war diaries.Taught illustration at Camberwell School of Art(1948-52).Worked for UNESCO in India(1952-53).Part-time tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Etching(1953-61).Ardizzone worked in watercolour, pen and ink, pencil and lithograph as a painter,printmaker, greetings card designer and illustrator of over 170 books, many of them his own. He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal (1956) for 'Tim All Alone' and the Carnegie Medal(1955) and Hans Christian Andersen Medal(1956) with 'The Little Bookroom'.He particularly enjoyed illustrating poetry.He worked mainly from memory,early developing a freely drawn and unmistakable style that changed very little during the course of his long career.He acknowledged the influence of Bernard Meninsky on his work,and also the 19thC draughtsmen Daumier,Dore and Caldecott.His brother-in-law Gabriel White considered 'perhaps no artist since Randolph Caldecott has captured so easily the qualities essential in successful illustration for a child.Ardizzone's are bold and clear and tell the tale in the simplest lines and colours.Ardizzone was awarded the CBE (UK honour) in 1971.In 1973, a retrospective of his work was held at the V & A Museum in London. 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UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.
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