From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION. 4to. 9 x 11.5 inches. Unpaginated. [41] pp. Bound in pictorial stiff card with black titles, in matching pictorial, price clipped dust wrapper, which has slightly sunned spine and top edge and head of spine wear with some chips. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated throughout in colour by Carol Barker, including frontispiece and vignettes. Pictorial endpapers. The artist and illustrator, Carol Barker (b.1938), painted the pictures to the earlier title, Achilles the Donkey (1962) and a story to them was then written by H. E. Bates (1905-74). For this second title, Bates wrote the story first, which was then illustrated by Carol Barker, later known for her London Transport posters. A third Achilles book followed in 1964. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS FICTION LIT. FICTION CHILDREN'S 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS. Seller Inventory # 25155
Bibliographic Details
Title: ACHILLES AND DIANA. By H. E. Bates and Carol...
Publisher: Dennis Dobson., London
Publication Date: 1963
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