The Story of Lazy Bush-Tail.

UK,slim 16mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published by same publisher in 1953,this edn a re-issue of that title from the series.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and although a diagonal price-clip to dw/dj corner,another publisher's adhesive price label in vicinity of clip.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Joan Wanklyn,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black,red and green lettering,rear panel with publisher's b/w advertisement for other titles in same series; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges inevitably but lightly aged/toned and generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original paper-covered,colour pictorial illustrated boards - front with repeated dw/dj design,rear with colour pictorial squirrel vignette; with bright,crisp,black ink printed letters to a white spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w line illustrated vignetted endpapers and pastedowns.UK,slim 16mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-43pp [paginated] includes story,7 full-colour,full-page illustrations and 15 part-page colour vignettes; plus [unpaginated] full-colour,full-page frntis,b/w vignetted title page and blank unillustrated unpaginated last page (pp44).
An enchanting series for children 4 to 8 years,of engaging stories and amusing and attractive colour illustrations printed on glossy art paper, bound in colour pictorial illustrated paper-covered boards - the design being repeated to front panel only,of dw/dj.To published date (1957) this is the only title written by the author and also as far as known,the only illustrated title by Joan Wanklyn,a noted and talented equestrian artist,for this series. Joan Wanklyn (b. 1924 - died 1999).Born At Benington,near Stevenage. studied at the Royal Drawing Society Studios and Chelsea Polytechnic prior to WW2.With the outbreak of war she ceased studying to work as a shorthand-typist,returning to her studies after the war,at the Central School of Art.She was commissioned to illustrate the 'I-Spy' Daily Mail series in 1949.Those titles ranged from the expected horses and ponies to zoo animals and circuses,giving her some inspiration for the children's books on animal subjects that she produced in the 1950s for publisher Frederick Warne.One title in particular,'Bobtail Shawn' (1949) is a pony book - being the biography of a pony. In 1986 she produced a book 'Drawn for Friends' (London,Threshold Books),which collected together her earlier drawings she had sent friends as cards.Apart from her own works,she also illustrated pony books,most notably three of Monica Edwards' 'Punchbowl Farm' series ('The Wanderer','Punchbowl Harvest' and 'Spirit of Punchbowl Farm'.) She illustrated many other children's books,mostly on animal and equestrian subjects.Joan Wanklyn was a regular figure in the early Pony Club Annuals and Pony Club Books and she also illustrated some stories in Pony Magazine Annuals in the 1960s.She wrote an article for the very first Pony Magazine Annual Percy's Pony Annual in 1953: Drawing Horses in Action.She painted portraits of many famous horses of the day, including Kilbarry,Tramella,Laurien,High and Mighty,Craven A,Workboy and Pegasus.Her largest work (as at 1972) was two murals of Foxhunter for Colonel Harry Llewellyn. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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