Buy this book on-line BLAKE**, QUENTIN: : The Story of the DANCING FROG.**LONDON.CAPE,1984. ISBN 0224021524.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn thus.[Despite published date of 1984 and no other contradictory indications - identical to true 1st edn issue - this is fact a later or first reprint.] FINE.No dw/dj - as issued and no owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean glossy laminated,white background with colour pictorial illustrated front bd and colour vignette illustrated rear bd which also has a barcode and price of £9.99; with negligible shelf-wear or bumping to edges and corners and immaculate unmarked plain white endpapers.One tiny,tiny snick to rear board's top edge towards the right-hand corner - no other faults present. Contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation. UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn thus,32pp [unpaginated] includes colour illustrated title page and full+part-page colour illustrations to every page - all by Quentin Blake.A really exceptional copy - snick excepted and uncommon in this good a grade.
Roald Dahl's own favourite and principal illustrator,Blake illustrated several other books of the author's work,during the author's lifetime.He has also written and illustrated a great many of his own.Blake was the first Children's Laureate from 1999-2001.
Quentin Blake,born 1932,Sidcup,Kent.Son of a civil servant.Educated at Chiselhurst,Sidcup Grammar School and Cambridge University.Attended life classes at Chelsea College of Art.Tutor in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1965- 78) and Head of the Illustration Dept since 1978.He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakeable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaiety in a few rapid strokes.He has illustrated many editions of the BBC Jackanory television programme.
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