ONCE UPON A TIME Though it wasn't in your time, and it wasn't in my time, and it wasn't in anybody else's time... de GARNER, Alan. Illustrated by Norman Messenger.:

Great Britain: DK Publishing, 1993. First edition. ! st American edition, 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by prior owner. Light spine and corner edge wear.. Messenger, Norman (Illustrated by). 1 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 32 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Time beyond time is the time of the folktale: The Fox, the Hare and the Cock; The Girl and the Geese; Battibeth. Garner hear's the poetry in folktales, and recreates the rhythms for GREAT reading aloud. Add the context of Messenger's illustrations, and re-enter the imaginative world that has enthralled generations. Wonderfully illustrated in color; a cow, a bear, and a dog chase one another repeatedly on end papers, back and forth.

London, Dorling Kindersley, 1993.. FIRST EDITION 1993, 4to, 260 x 215 mm, 10¼ x 8½ inches, wine red boards, gilt decoration to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, colour illustrated endpapers, 29 pages. Coloured illustrations in the text throughout. Three folk tales retold. Tiniest bump to lower corners of boards, a touch of rubbing to tail of spine and lower corners, no inscriptions. An almost Fine clean copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped, lettering on spine slightly faded. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.