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Ethel & Ernest.
by BRIGGS, Raymond
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape,, 1998. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page and dated 10 September 1998. This is a pre-publication copy as the book was published in October 1998. As noted by the dust jacket blurb, this is an "utterly original, deeply moving and very funny... story of Raymond Briggs's parents from their first chance encounter to their deaths, told in Briggs's unique strip-cartoon format". The book won the "Best Illustrated Book of the Year" at the 1999 British Book Awards and was adapted into an animated film which was released in 2016. Octavo. Original brown boards, lettering to spine in gilt. With dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by the author. Minor bump to rear cover, jacket not price-clipped: a near-fine copy in a fine jacket.
Synopsis
Ethel and Ernest (subtitled "A True Story") is a graphic novel by English author and illustrator Raymond Briggs. It tells the story of the lives of Briggs' parents from their first meeting in 1928 to their deaths in 1971.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169709
- Title
- Ethel & Ernest.
- Author
- BRIGGS, Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Jonathan Cape,
- Date Published
- 1998
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Gilt
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