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ALDRIDGE**, ALAN & PLOMER**, WILLIAM, FITTER**, RICHARD: : THE BUTTERFLY BALL AND GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST. [Plus scarce Ball's Invitation card.]

LONDON.CAPE & TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD.,1973.

ISBN 0224008080.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,and also complete as it includes the Ball's Invitation card,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn and the uncommon Ball Invite loosely laid in - these are generally missing in the majority of other listings elsewhere.Bright,clean,glossy, laminated,colour pictorial illustrated upper board; with negligible shelf-wear and miniscule bumping,miniscule rubbing spots to edges and corners.Spine/backstrip minimally sunned/faded - as usual/normal - with miniscule rubbing with reciprocal loss to foot of same.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned, contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,apart from my own collation. UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,72pp [unpaginated and excluding endpapers], 28 full-colour full-page illustrated plates, illustrated by Alan Aldridge in collaboration with Harry Willock,b/w illustrated,illuminated capitals to verses; verses by William Plomer and Nature notes by Richard Fitter. This is the tale of the summer's day,deep in the woods of England,when the Butterflies and Grasshoppers invited all the creatures of air and land to a Ball and a Feast.From St.Michael's Mount, Windsor, Rye, Salisbury, Tintern Abbey and the far corners of Britain they came - moles, gnats, dormice, newts, shrews, caterpillars, moths, frogs, squirrels, spiders, toads, mice, bees, flies, worms, centipedes, hares, hedgehogs, otters and foxes.Setting out in Johnson's Spinner Trains, Hot-Air Balloons, stagecoaches and on foot, most arrive - some fall foul of bats, stoats, wasps and foxes and don't! Beneath the Broad Oak Tree the Butterflies and guests dance the evening away, feasting and merrymaking until the glow-worms light up and lead the weary guests back to their beds.Based on William Roscoe's book of same name, originally published 1807. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct,insured (optional at buyers own risk) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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 US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,Qrto HB_Invitation card,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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