Buy this book on-line Greene, Graham : The Little SteamrollerBodley Head Children's Books, 1974 ISBN 0370020235
Stated First published. Presumed first printing; no printings listed. DJ in archival cover light edge wear, end papers very slightly browned., Near Fine. Illustr: Edward Ardizzone Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Greene, Graham : The Little Steamroller. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. GREENE**,GRAHAM: : THE LITTLE STEAMROLLERLONDON.VIKING,1994. ISBN 0670850969.
UK,oblong 12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published Bodley Head, 1974,this first VIKING issue,1994,also published simultaneously with Puffin (in a softback edn.)]FINE.No owner inscrptn, minus dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean colour pictorial artwork illustrated paper-covered boards by Edward Ardizzone; with negligible shelf-wear,miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head+foot of spine/ backstrip,lower rear corner minimally bumped and a tiny,tiny rub/nick to rear,top edge and immaculate plain cream endpapers. UK,Oblong 12mo (approx 7.5" tall x 9,75" wide)HB,no dw/dj - as issued?,1st edn thus, 5-46pp includes Ardizzone colour pictorial illustrated title page,and profuse colour illustrated pages - many double-paged.
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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