A Bear Called Paddington - Deluxe Edition with full-colour illustrations.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,colour illustrated 1st edn thus. [Originally published 1958 by Collins (UK) 8vo HB+ dw/dj.Collins then published a new HB edn in 2002 and a p/b edn in 2003.A colour illustrated edn was published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2008. This Deluxe edn with coloured illustrations,in 2013. Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial coloured artwork by Mark Burgess from Peggy Fortnum original b/w illustrations,illustrated dw/dj panels with white,red and blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - tiniest of dents to front,lower corner - original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed Paddington Bear silhouette and lettering to front board and spine/backstrip,a pale blue headband a sewn-in red silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain pale blue pastedowns and pale blue Paddington Bear silhouettes illustrated front+rear free endpapers. UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,9-142pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Michael Bond, 8 chapters,profuse colour vignettes by Mark Burgess after Fortnum's original drawings throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] colour vignette illustrated half-title+title pages,colour vignetted verso of first page of double-page contents list/table which is also colour vignettes illustrated and last page also unpaginated.
"A bear? On Paddington Station?" Mrs Brown looked at her husband in amazement. "Don't be silly, Henry. There can't be!" Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station.Since then their lives have never been quite the same. . . for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved. Unabridged and illustrated in glorious full-colour throughout,this exquisite gift edition of the original story is truly to be treasured! It was Christmas Eve,1956,when BBC Television cameraman and freelance writer Michael Bond came across a toy bear sitting all by itself on a shelf in a London department store.He couldn't resist buying it for a stocking filler for his wife,and they named it 'Paddington' after the railway station near their flat. Had it been any other kind of toy the story might have ended there.But with bears one thing often leads to another,so when Michael wondered what might have happened had a real bear found itself alone on a big train terminus,the muse struck and 'A Bear Called Paddington' was born. Fifty years and many millions of books later, Paddington continues to touch the hearts of adults and children worldwide with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures. Michael Bond was awarded the OBE for services to children's literature in 1997,and in 2007 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Reading University.Born in Newbury and raised in Reading he lives in London with his wife,Sue,and two guinea pigs named Olga da Polga and Vladimir. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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