A Balloon for a Blunderbuss by Gill, Bob

A Balloon for a Blunderbuss (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780714848730)

Vendor: Bob Gill
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$14.95
$14.95
$14.95
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A Balloon for a Blunderbuss by Gill, Bob

A Balloon for a Blunderbuss

$14.95
A Balloon for a Blunderbuss by Gill, Bob

A Balloon for a Blunderbuss

$14.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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This lovingly restored 1960s children's classic takes design lovers of all ages on a fantastic journey, via an imaginative and entertaining series of trades and swaps that starts small, with a butterfly, and ends up including absolutely everything in the world, from straw hats to the stars in the sky. A beautifully woven sequence of entertaining text and bold illustrations, written by Alastair Reid and illustrated by Bob Gill, this book will delight the youngest and oldest of readers.




Author: Bob Gill,Alastair Reid
ISBN-10: 0714848735
ISBN-13: 9780714848730
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 36
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 10.47h x 8.45w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Vanity Fair 05/01/2008 pg. 100
New York Times Book Review 07/13/2008 pg. 15
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 pg. 24 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
By Bob Gill
By Bob Gill
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Bob Gill (b.1931) is a world-renowned illustrator and designer. In 1960 he joined Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes to create a design agency that was the precursor of Pentagram. In 1967 he resumed his freelance career as an illustrator, designer, teacher, film-maker, and author of children's books. He has also written a number of essential texts on graphic design.

Alastair Reid (b.1926) is a poet and a scholar from Galloway in Scotland. He has lived in Europe, the United States, and Central and South America, working variously as a poet, translator and South American editor of the New Yorker.

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