Buy this book on-line WALSER,DAVID - Retold by: : THE THOUSAND NIGHTS and One NightLONDON.PUFFIN BOOKS/PENGUIN GROUP,2007. ISBN 9780141382883.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.
No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Jan Pienkowski,illustrated dw/dj,
with white,black and gilt lettering;
with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges gilt and bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,
appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain burgundy cloth bds with bright,
crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain red eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-ixpp
+13-158pp [paginated] includes an intro by David Wasler,a preface(?) by Jan Pienkowski,8 chapters/tales,
30+ full-page,full colour illustrations,b/ack silhouette chapter/tales head+tail pieces,part page b/w silhouette illustrations throughout the text and the book,
double-page full colour tale separator pages - all by Jan Pienkowski,a red silk attached bookmark ribbon,plus [unpaginated] full colour double-page title page,
contents list/table,and a last full page,full colour illustrated page with text to it's recto.
Welcome to the world of 'The Thousand Nights and One Night' - an ancient world of enchantment and adventure,where magic is commonplace
and animals talk,where genies rub shoulders with men,and wicked sorcerers abound.
This collection of tales includes favourites such as 'Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves' and 'Aladdin's Lamp',as well as less familiar stories.Jan Pienkowski's adventurous
silhouettes and the elegant retellings by David Walser capture the excitement of these exotic fables,giving them a new dimension.
Other tales include 'Shahrazade: The First Night','The Tale of the Birds,the Beasts and the Carpenter',
'The Tale of Sinbad the Sailor','The
Tale of the Fox and the Cock','The Tale of the Fisherman and the Genie'
and 'Shahrazade: The Last Night'.
Jan Michel Pienkowski,born 1936,
Warsaw,Poland:childhood spent in Austria,Germany and Italy.Educated in England and Wales.Read Classics and English at King's College,
Cambridge and studied in London.
Founder director (1961) of Gallery Five Ltd.,greetings card and publishers. As an illustrator of children's books,he works in bold colours and simplified shapes,sometimes (as in the Meg and Mog series) adopting a childlike drawing style.Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal with Joan Aiken's 'Kingdom under the Sea' (1971) and with his own pop-up book
'Haunted House' (1979)- Although he collaborated with Aiken on a few of her books,perhaps his finest works are his pop-up books - 'Haunted House' (1979) and 'Robot' (1981) - see rja1203 - the first of which sold over one million copies.Also a graphic designer for advertising and
television,designer of wallpaper,
stage designer and art editor.Began his artistic career by designing posters and greetings cards,but later turned to children's book illustration. Since April 2013,and again in March
2015,and again in this year too,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,
altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!
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