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OXENBURY**, HELEN and MASCHLER, FAY: : A Child's BOOK of MANNERS

LONDON.CAPE,1978.

ISBN 0224016202.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj- as issued,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued.Bright,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Helen Oxenbury illustrated boards with plain pink endpapers; and negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edge slightly aged; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reding creases to any pages' corners.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,includes 16pp [unpaginated] with colour pictorial oval vignetted title page,2 double-page,9 full-page and 15 part -page colour illustrations by Helen Oxenbury,and text by Fay Maschler - in verse.Her first and only book for this publisher,making it an uncommon item. Helen Oxenbury(b.1938) in Ipswich,Suffolk, daughter of an architect.Attended Ipswich School of Art and then studied theatre design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.She was assistant designer and then designer at Colchester Repertory Theatre and spent three years in Israel as a scene painter and designer for the Habinek Theatre,Tel-Aviv.On her return she worked for television at Teddington and on film sets at the Shepperton Studios.Her first book,'Numbers of Things',was published in 1967 and in 1969 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal with 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat' and 'The Dragon of an Ordinary Family'.These and her other subsequent picture books have been notable for their humour and freshness, and often for their conceptualised,deliberate childlike iconography.A successful series of board books for Walker (publisher) in the 1980's established her as a household name.These were later followed by fourteen 'Tom and Pippo' books.She generally works in pen and ink, coloured with crayon, watercolour washes or gouache.She married the children's illustrator and writer John Burningham (in 1964),himself,the first illustrator to win the Kate Greenaway Medal,twice. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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