Buy this book on-line THELWELL**, NORMAN: : PenelopeLONDON.EYRE METHUEN LTD.,1972. ISBN 0413293408.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,but a price-clipped dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour Thelwell cartoon illustrated dw/dj panels,with red,black+ green lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/ toned - as usual/normal - but generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - with no foxing/spotting,and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,immaculate,sharp-cornered, glazed boards with dw/dj colour illustrated design repeated to them,and clean,plain white endpapers - without any off-setting from the dw/djs' inner flaps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-95pp [paginated] includes profuse b/w captioned cartoons all by Norman Thelwell, throughout the book; plus [unpaginated] b/w cartoon vignetted half-title page,b/w cartoon illustrated title-page,b/w cartoon illustrated frntis.The book is based on a series of cartoons which appeared in the Sunday Express (a UK newspaper.) .
The girls of Thelwell's famous riding establishment have not had much to say for themselves over the years.The ceaseless struggles with their demon mounts have left them too short of breath and their mouths too full of greensward to make more than brief,if pertinent, comments.
Penelope changed all that.From her first appearance in the pages of 'The Sunday Express' she never stopped talking.She had something to say on almost every aspect of the human condition,however hair-raising her own happened to be at the time.
A few people missed what she had to say. Many more have clamoured to have her comments put into a permanent and handy reference form.It has been done.With typical modesty she has called her book 'Penelope'.
A really superb 1st edn,in Thelwell's bold and comedic style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Thelwell canon.
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