The QUENTIN BLAKE BOOK OF NONSENSE VERSE. [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn. FINE/NFINE. Neat,blue ink owner's gift presentation inscrptn to top of ffe; and author's neat,handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,cream and colour pictorial illustrated artwork by Quentin Blake,illustrated dw/dj,only minisculely grubbed - but generally clean - with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and a couple of tiny,closed nicks to same.Top edge minisculely spotted but generally bright and clean,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean,pp103/4 has a small dog-ear crease - the only page thus affected.Sharp-cornered,bright, clean,grey paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+ grey headband,and bright,clean,plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn,13-285pp [paginated] includes author introduction,15 sections, profuse b/w line illus throughout the text and the book,all by Quentin Blake,an index of poets,and index of first lines, and acknowledgements to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and 8pp contents list/table.
Ever Eaten Poodle Strudel? Slain a Jabberwock? Bathed in Irish Stew?
The world is turned upside down in this deliciously absurd feast of poetry; and in choosing and illustrating the verse,Quentin Blake creates an artful alliance of the nonsense to be found in words and pictures.With an artist's elegant eccentricity,he brings together the classic verses of nonsense greats such as Belloc,Carroll and Lear with those of an astonishing gallimaufry of other talents who include Tom Hood and A.E. Housman, Spike Milligan and Roger McGough, Samuel Beckett and Edward Gorey, John Updike and Russell Hoban, Margaret Mahy, Shel Silverstein, Mervyn Peake, Ogden Nash and Roald Dahl.There's even a song from Groucho Marx.
This plethora of lunacy is ordered - but only just! - into fifteen enjoyable sections including Distracting Creatures, Portraits from Life, a Gamut of Achievements and even an Area of Uncertainty.Quentin Blake's drawings bring a unique vision and energy to each.
Playfully rebellious,though-provoking and downright cheeky fun,'The Quentin Blake Book of Nonsense Verse' is sheer entertainment for nonsense-lovers of all ages.
Quentin Blake,born 1932,Sidcup,Kent.Son of a civil servant. Educated at Chiselhurst,Sidcup Grammar School and Cambridge University.Attended life classes at Chelsea College of Art.Tutor in illustration at the Royal College of Art (1965- 78) and Head of the Illustration Dept 1978- 1986,and is now a visiting professor.He was honoured with an OBE in 1988.He works in pen and ink and watercolour in a popular and unmistakeable style,capturing essential character and movement with wit and gaiety in a few rapid strokes.He has illustrated many editions of the BBC Jackanory television programme.Whilst he illustrated many of his own works,he is renowned for his collaboration with Roald Dahl.Quentin Blake was the first Children's Laureate from 1999-2001.
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