"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht

New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1982. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.128. With a mixture of full colour plates and black and white vignettes by Foreman. SIGNED by both author and illustrator in black ink, each to a separate bookplate on the verso of the fly-leaf and on the half-title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blue illustrated endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Foreman, not priced. Light rubbing and bumping to board edges. Near fine. A collection of thirty original Fairy Tales by the Monty Python star, and Mediaeval scholar, originally written for his daughter Sally. Item #56939
Price: £250.00