Harlequin: A Fantasy Of Night (SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING IN DUSTWRAPPER)

Sydney, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. VG+/VG+. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. Size of book, 27.5 by 22.3cms. Not paginated, (32)pp. Profusely illustrated with full-page colour illustrations by Annette Lodge. It is the night before the Carnival, the most exciting date of the whole year, when music plays, flags fly and there are flowers everywhere. Tonight everyone, young and old, has ready a rich and gaily coloured costume for the Grand Parade. Everyone, except Harlequin. He has no costume. His mother is too poor even to buy the bright material to make one. Sadly Harlequin greets the moon he loves so much and sadly he falls asleep...and dreams of the Magician of the Moon, a journey through space and time. Told in the lyrical language of fairy tales, full of the magic of dreams and wonder and illustrated with paintings which glow with colour and life, the book provides and delightful fantasy which readers will return time and time again. This book is based on the superb children's film of the same name - a fantasy integrating the arts of storytelling, painting, mime and dance. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, and corners; d/w has light sunning around spine; d/w has minor wear to head of spine; else a very good plus copy, in a very good plus d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. NO inscriptions, highlighting or underlining.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Annette Lodge.