THE MINPINS.** [Illustrated by Patrick Benson.**]

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj by Patrick Benson - design repeated to glazed boards; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Dw/dj design/illutrations repeated to boards,with clean plain brick-red endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+ dw/dj, illustrated,1st edn,5-47pp [paginated] includes half-title,a vignette colour illustrated title page,8 full-colour,full-page illustrations,4 full-colour double-page illustrations; plus other thumbnail colour illustrations in the text and page edges/borders (virtually an illustration to every page) - all by Patrick Benson. Want more Roald DAHL titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my SIGNED and CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues. Beware! Beware! The Forest of Sin! None come out,but many go in!
Little Billy was awfully tired of being good.He longed to explore the big black secret wood - the Forest of Sin.
So,despite warnings about Whangdoodles, Snozzwanglers,Vermicious Knids,and other even more terrible beasts,he is tempted to go through the gate,into the forest beyond. . . . Once inside,he encounters the extraordinary Minpins, who live in terror of the most awesome creature invented: the Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher! and it is Little Billy - with some very special help from the Minpins themselves - who comes up with a plan to defeat the dreaded monster,and finds himself proclaimed a hero! A compelling adventure that will ensure Dahl's unique storytelling magic will live on in the abundant imaginations of children everywhere. 'The Minpins' is told with all the darkly imaginative flair of the Master Storyteller,and Patrick Benson's vivid illustrations provide an inspired interpretation of Dahl's fantastical world.The author's final work for children and was published posthumously.Dahl was a double winner of the Children's Book Award and Whitbread Children's Book Award.
Benson,himself,is a winner of the prestigious Kurt Maschler Award,and this copy is a superb example of the collaboration between author and artist. Patrick Benson studied at the Chelsea Art School and St Martin's School of Art.He first entered the world of book illustration with William Mayne's 'Hob Stories' in 1984,for which he won the Mother Goose Award.Since then he has continued to illustrate other people's stories, as well as his own.He received world-wide accolades for his interpretation of Roald Dahl's final book,'The Minpins' (see my book ID's rja26467,rja32168,rja416912 and rja1114923 for more of the same 1st edns),and the two J.R. Hartley 'Fly Fishing books (see book ID rja26597).His illustrations for 'The Willows in Winter' (see my book ID's rja1132, rja596116 and rja682917), and his new edition of 'The Wind in the Willows' also received outstanding praise. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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