Maude Roxby Roderick (4 results)

Condition: Good. H.F. and G. Witherby Ltd. London oblong 8vo. unpaginated. illustrated boards are rubbed. corners bumped. binding slightly shaken.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. landscape format, glazed sl grubby pictorial boards, faded blue cloth spine, rubbed corners + edges espec. front right edge, pictorial front pastedown, dedication to previous owner ffep. unpaginated [68pp] inc introduction + 7 delightful cold. plates, illlusd throughout b/w drawings, light finger marks ffep o/w clean, lovely, scarce. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Catalogue dimensions:170mm H x 220mm. pp.79. Children's fiction.Colour and b/w illustrations by the author. PublisherÕs own retained copy with their stamp on the front pastedown reading ÔFile Copy.Õ Roderick Maude-Roxby (born 1930) is better known as an English actor who has appeared in numerous films, such as Walt Disney's The Aristocats. At the Royal College of Art,he was a contemporary of David Hockney and Peter Blake. He also collaborated in a pre-Monty Python series with Michael Palin and Terry Jones, called The Complete and Utter History of Britain. His books for children were written and illustrated between the ages of 13 and 16. Very good. Covers very slightly used; lower cover very slightly creased. Endpapers very slightly mottled. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A scarce copy of this humorous children's story, written and illustrated by the actor Roddy Maude-Roxby. The first edition of this scarce work in the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards.Ink inscription to the verso of front blank, dated 1945.Roderick Maude-Roxby is an English actor, who has appeared in numerous films, such as Walt Disney's The Aristocats, in which he voiced the butler Edgar Balthazar; Unconditional Love; and Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart. This is an amusing children's story in which Bulgy the frog has adventures. Written and illustrated throughout by Maude-Roxby when he was thirteen years old, with an introduction by his friend Merlin Pearson-Rogers. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally generally smart and bright, with fading to the spine and shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot to the first couple of pages. Very Good. Roderick Maude-Roxby (illustrator). book. …