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STONE**, BERNARD: : EMERGENCY MOUSE

LONDON.ANDERSEN PRESS LTD.,1978.

ISBN 0905478312.

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.[The true 1st edn,that was then followed a year later,1979 in France as 'Souris en blanc' by Les Editions de La Murelle and Editions Gallimard,1980.A UK,Sparrow Books p/back 1st edn thus,appeared, 1981.This book was also translated into Dutch, German,Italian,Japanese and Swedish.] VG+.No owner inscrptn.Glossy,pictorial colour illustrated/decorated card boards by Ralph Steadman with minimal shelf-wear.Top+fore- edges clean,contents tight and generally clean with no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corner tips.UK,8vo(approx 9.50" tall x 8.25" wide) HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,24pp [unpaginated] and excluding endpapers,and b/w+ colour illustrations by Ralph Steadman. The first and the most uncommon title of this Mouse trilogy (others are Inspector Mouse and Quasimodo Mouse) by this author/artist collaboration.See rja498212 (Inspector Mouse) & rja1946 (Emergency Mouse - author SIGNED),for other titles/copies in this trilogy. Charming story of a little boy admitted to hospital for an operation.As he's about to fall asleep,he's thinking of his own pet mouse Whitey and then suddenly he noticed several tiny lights above little doors in the skirting board. Suddenly the doors open and mice dressed as doctors and nurses wheel out a lot of little beds and pushed them into rows.The mice were taking over the hospital for the night,setting up their own ward with a mouse surgeon and doctors and nurses to take care of all the mouse patients. . . . . Ralph Steadman,born 1936,in Wallasey,near Liverpool.Educated at Abergele Grammar School, North Wales.Apprentice engineer with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. Served in the RAF (1954-56).Caricaturist, sculptor,painter,printmaker:also writer of music and songs.Contributor to Punch, Private Eye [UK satirical magazines),The Times and The Daily Telegraph (UK newspapers) [1961-69],to Rolling Stone (1970-79),and the New Statesman (since 1979).A winner of the Francis Williams Illustrations Award (1972) with Alice in Wonderland (1967).Has travelled extensively in America,Canada,Europe and the Orient. As a caricaturist,Steadman has been influenced by the German expressionist George Grosz and the American Saul Steinberg.He was one of the artists (another was Gerald Scarfe) who,during the 1960's broke away from the tradition of gentlemanly realism established in the 19thC by John Tenniel to explore the realms of passion, fantasy and nightmare. Significantly,perhaps,he took up the challenge of illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', (first illustrated by Tenniel) and proved to be the only 'Alice' illustrator since Arthur Rackham to succeed in creating convincing images that owed nothing to Tenniel's authoraitative iconography.His more recent illustrations to 'Sigmund Freud' have been described as 'the mature work of an artist in sympathy with a genius and through that sympathy finding new reaches in his own capabilities' (Michael McNay:The Guardian, 6th July,1982.). Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

STONE,BERNARD**: : EMERGENCY MOUSE

LONDON.ANDERSEN PRESS LTD.,1978.

ISBN 0905478312.

UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.[The true 1st edn,that was then followed a year later,1979 in France as 'Souris en blanc' by Les Editions de La Murelle and Editions Gallimard,1980.A UK,Sparrow Books p/back 1st edn thus,appeared,1981.This book was also translated into Dutch, German,Italian,Japanese and Swedish.] VG++.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,glazed,pictorial colour illustrated/decorated card bds by Ralph Steadman with minimal shelf-wear,creasing or bumping to edges and corners.Some minimal but inevitable light scoring/ indentations to front bd.Top+fore-edges clean,contents tight and generally clean with no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners.8vo (approx 9.50" tall x 8.25" wide),24pp [unpaginated] and excluding eps,and b/w+colour illustrations by Ralph Steadman.The first and the most uncommon title of this Mouse trilogy (the other titles are Inspector Mouse and Quasimodo Mouse) by this author/artist collaboration.See rja498212 (Inspector Mouse) & rja1946 (Emergency Mouse - author (Bernard Stone) SIGNED),for other titles/ copies in this trilogy. Bernard Stone created a bookshop in London which became a waterhole for writers,poets and artists.This story is the result of his own prolonged stay in one of London's hospitals and his love for children's books. His friend Ralph Steadman is one of Britain's most highly acclaimed cartoonists,who has also achieved prominence as the illustrator of numerous picture books which have been published throughout Europe and America.He has become the landscape upon which a whole new generation of illustrators has grown. Charming story of a little boy admitted to hospital for an operation.As he's about to fall asleep,he's thinking of his own pet mouse Whitey and then suddenly he noticed several tiny lights above little doors in the skirting board. Suddenly the doors open and mice dressed as doctors and nurses wheel out a lot of little beds and pushed them into rows.The mice were taking over the hospital for the night,setting up their own ward with a mouse surgeon and doctors and nurses to take care of all the mouse patients. . . Ralph Steadman,born 1936,in Wallasey,near Liverpool.Educated at Abergele Grammar School,North Wales.Apprentice engineer with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. Served in the RAF (1954-56).Caricaturist, sculptor,painter,printmaker:also writer of music and songs.Contributor to Punch, Private Eye [UK satirical magazines),The Times and The Daily Telegraph (UK newspapers) [1961-69],to Rolling Stone (1970-79),and the New Statesman (since 1979).A winner of the Francis Williams Illustrations Award (1972) with Alice in Wonderland (1967).Has travelled extensively in America,Canada,Europe and the Orient. As a caricaturist,Steadman has been influenced by the German expressionist George Grosz and the American Saul Steinberg.He was one of the artists (another was Gerald Scarfe) who,during the 1960's broke away from the tradition of gentlemanly realism established in the 19thC by John Tenniel to explore the realms of passion,fantasy and nightmare. Significantly,perhaps,he took up the challenge of illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass', (first illustrated by Tenniel) and proved to be the only 'Alice' illustrator since Arthur Rackham to succeed in creating convincing images that owed nothing to Tenniel's authoraitative iconography.His more recent illustrations to 'Sigmund Freud' have been described as 'the mature work of an artist in sympathy with a genius and through that sympathy finding new reaches in his own capabilities' (Michael McNay:The Guardian, 6th July,1982.). Since April,2013,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances, dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB,1st edn.

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