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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Throughout his work in fact a manual dexterity and a tactile sensitivity towards artists maternals played a defining role and for this reason the book reserves a special place for original drawings preparatory sketches on parchment paper and a number of unpublished works which give us an extremely revealing view of his creative processes and the variety of techniques employed that are still essential Today even in a field now deminated by digital and virtual technologies As a part of this retrospective one of his early children’s books titted Books’ Sumon & Schuster 1962) was re-released in Italy in 2012 fifty years after it was first published. A sharp and witty book about books land their making) it summed up the attitude that John Alcorn was to develop and believe in in the following decades. And it is no coincidence that the Italian edition (Topipittori Milan) was immediately followed by French Spanish) Korean and American versions an optimistic message about the book as tangible object and its long-term future (MP)