Buy this book on-line CARLSON,NATALIE SAVAGE: : PIGEON of PARISLONDON.BLACKIE,1972. ISBN 0216893046.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,
clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by Quentin Blake,illustrated dw/dj,with red+
black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and
corners - a small closed tear to head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj with minimal chipping and miniscule loss.A tiny,tiny snick to foot of same at front gutter's edge; both panels with inevitable but light, superficial scoring/indentations - but without affecting the bds beneath.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,
tight,clean,solid and sound - text body pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would
appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,
stamped gilt outlined pigeon design centrally to front bd and bright,
crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip,and clean plain white eps.
Residue of traces of removal of a small circular adhesive label to top,right-hand corner of ffe.UK,slim
8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-76pp [paginated] includes 5 chapters,9 full-page and profuse remaining part-page b/w line illus by Quentin Blake throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title +
title pages,author's other published
titles advert verso of b/w illustrated frntis.
'There are too many pigeons in Paris,' decreed the Chief of Police,
and so - in due course - he ordered them to be deported in large numbers
far,far away to the forests of the Landes and of the Dordogne.Poor Evangeline! She had just settled down in a nest under a grgoyle on Notre Dame Cathedral with Gabriel,a handsome pigeon from the Arc de Triomphe,when their happness was cut
short.In no time at all Gabriel was
on his way to the Landes and Evangeline to the Dordogne.
Life in the forest was frightening for a city pigeon,but Evangeline managed to survive - first with a flock of friendly pigeons that took her to live with them in their cave-home,later in the dovecote of a farmer who raised pigeons as a hobby
and showed them in Paris.And all the
while,in true pigeon fashion,she mourned for Gabriel.How Evangeline finally returned to Paris where she found Gabriel waiting,somewhat impatiently,by their abandoned nest,
and how the young farmer found his true love in Paris,too,are told with
the warmth and humour that mark Mrs Carlson's writing.
In 1957,the pigeons of Paris were deported just as Miss Carlson describes here,and in time many of them were able to find their way back.Mrs Carlson sympathetic imagination was caught,and out of this true happening 'Pigeon of Paris' came into being.
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