STREET CHILDREN (First edition - in defective dustwrapper)

B. S. Johnson (text), Julia Trevelyan Oman (photographs)

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1964

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First printing of the true first edition, published in 1964. A collection of photographs by the famous set designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, showing "children growing up, learning and playing in a street environment" in London in 1963 - with imagined children's commentaries by B. S. Johnson, the English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, and filmmaker. ***Please note that there is some significant loss to the dustwrapper. ***Very good in oatmeal paper over blue textured cloth-covered boards with white titles to the spine. The boards are very clean, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine and corners just slightly rubbed. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean, with the top edge stained dark-blue by the publisher - lovely and clean - unfaded. Internally also very good with a large ownership name on the front pastedown, but with no other annotations. No creases or tears. Pages clean without any foxing - just a few light handling marks. ***In a good only dustwrapper, which has quite a large area of loss to the front panel near the spine. There is also significant rubbing and creasing to the edges, and a large closed tear (with clear tape on the reverse) and associated creasing on the front panel. Some other short closed tears at the edges, laminate lifting and discoloration to the white colour in places (please see scans). ***"--- promise me things and then not do them and expect everything to be the same afterwards, she just can't, she can't promise and then not keep it, and I'll never go back in that house again, never, no, I'll run, run and run and run if she comes across to get me, and she'll have to catch me if she ever wants to get me back, but she'll never catch me, she's too fat, that'll show her not to promise me things and not do them and then expect me to love her just the dame afterwards as if ---" (Quote taken from B. S. Johnson's imagined commentary to the one of the photographs) ***'Julia Trevelyan Oman, Lady Strong CBE (11 July 1930 - 10 October 2003) was an English television, theatre, ballet and opera set designer. Among the BBC television programmes Oman worked on were Dixon of Dock Green and the Billy Cotton Band Show. In 1966, she won the designer of the year award for her contribution to Jonathan Miller's television production of Alice in Wonderland. In 1968 she won the Plays and Players ?Best Set? award for Brief Lives, directed by Patrick Garland, with whom she worked on several occasions. She later designed sets for the Chichester Festival, Hamburg State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. ***Bryan Stanley William Johnson (5 February 1933 - 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. He also produced television programmes and made films.' (Wiki). ***A very good copy of the first printing of the true first edition - a fantastic collection of street photographs by Julia Trevelyan Oman with imagined children's commentaries by B. S. Johnson - in a defective dustwrapper. An uncommon book - most copies have damaged dustwrappers (as this example) or no dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: STREET CHILDREN (First edition - in defective dustwrapper)
• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Date de parution: 1964
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: First Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • First Editions
  • Political & Social History
  • World War Two (Second World War)