Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride

Edité par London: Faber and Faber, 1987

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Errol Le Cain's Last Christmas A Fine First Edition of Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride, Signed and Dated by the Illustrator [LE CAIN, Errol, illustrator]. BRICUSSE, Leslie. Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride. An Absolutely Amazing Christmas Story by Leslie Bricusse Illustrated by Errol Le Cain. London: Faber and Faber, [1987]. First trade edition. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches; 298 x 210 mm.). [32] pp. Eleven full-page color illustrations and numerous black-and-white drawings throughout by Errol Le Cain. Publisher's tan paper over boards, spine lettered in black. Original color pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. Signed and dated by Errol Le Cain on the front free endpaper: "Errol Le Cain 20th Nov. '87" A particularly desirable signed copy of the trade first edition of Leslie Bricusse's wonderfully eccentric Christmas fantasy, illustrated by the celebrated artist Errol Le Cain. Written in verse, Christmas 1993 imagines the increasingly formidable difficulties confronting Father Christmas in the modern world. Wars, bureaucracy, politics, technology and assorted manifestations of contemporary lunacy combine to make Santa's annual journey increasingly hazardous, culminating in the disastrous Christmas Eve of 1993. The book has a particularly interesting history. In 1986 Bricusse showed the manuscript of his Christmas poem to David Brass, who suggested that it should be transformed into an illustrated book and introduced Bricusse to Errol Le Cain. The resulting collaboration was published by Faber and Faber the following year. Le Cain's richly decorative illustrations proved an inspired complement to Bricusse's comic verse. Combining elements reminiscent of the great Golden Age illustrators with Le Cain's own highly distinctive use of pattern, color and theatrical composition, they made Christmas 1993 one of the illustrator's most visually appealing late works. This copy is especially appealing for bearing Le Cain's dated signature, 20 November 1987, written directly onto the front free endpaper in the year of publication. The book was also issued in a substantially different De Luxe Edition of 100 copies, signed by both Bricusse and Le Cain and bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf; the first ten copies additionally contained an original Le Cain watercolor. The present copy is the trade first edition, retaining its original pictorial dust jacket, and is unusually signed by Le Cain himself.…

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Titre
Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride
Auteur
LE CAIN, Errol, illustrator; BRICUSSE, Leslie
Éditeur
London: Faber and Faber, 1987
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First Edition.
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