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Buy this book on-line MORPURGO**, MICHAEL - Edited by: : MUCK AND MAGIC: Stories from the Countryside.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.MAMMOTH,1995. ISBN 0749719028.
UK,8vo,SIGNED,p/back 1st edn.FINE.Author's neat, handwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to half-title,and no dw/dj - as issued - wraps,1st paperback edn.(HB published same year by Heinemann - see rja34179.) Bright, clean,Quentin Blake colour pictorial illustrated wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Reading crease to spine/backstrip and only one dog-ear crease to pp41/2 present (which corresponds with reading crease,which would seem to indicate that the book is/was only partially read).UK,8vo wraps/paperback,9-175pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters - 1 about the authors,2pp about the Farms for City Children Charity to rear,11 single-page b/w line illustrations by assorted illustrators throughout the book and text,1 accompanying each story.Unpaginated, SIGNED half-title page,b/w vignette by Quentin Blake illustrated title page,contents list/ table,facsimile Buckingham Palace headed notepaper,and foreword by H.R.H The Princess Royal (Ann),Patron of the Charity.
Written in support of Farms for City Children, the charity established by Clare and Michael Morpurgo,this unique and special anthology has contributions from some of the very best children's writers of today (then 1995) - Rachel Anderson, Berlie Doherty, Anthony Horowitz, Ted Hughes, Dick King-Smith, Elizabeth Laird, Joannna Lumley,Bel Mooney,Michael Morpurgo, Alick Rowe and Ian Strachan.
With b/w illustrations by Christian Birmingham,Quentin Blake, Aafke Brouwer, Anthony Browne, Martin Chatterton, Michael Foreman, Elizabeth Frink, Jonathan Heale, Anthony Kerins, John Lawrence, Tony Ross and John Vernon Lord.
With a foreword by Her Royal Highness,The Princess Royal,this wonderful and original collection of newly-commissioned stories,each with a specially commissioned illustration, celebrates the countryside and its inspiration to children.
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