Fred Uhlman Illustrator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Text is clean. Cover shows some wear, bump to bottom edge of rear cover. Dust jacket shows minor chipping at spine. States First Publisher 1946, with portion of copyright notice inked out (possibly by publisher or distributor). 3 of 4 color plates present.; B&W and Color Illustrations; 8.50 X 5.70 X 0.60 inches; 147 pages. Illustrated by Fred Uhlman (illustrator).…

London; Grey Walls Press Ltd. 1946. 8vo. Original mid blue cloth gilt, in decorative dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-147; with 4 coloured plates on card and text illustrations in half-tones; a very clean copy, both outside and in, protected by a lightly dusted jacket with small chipping to head of spine.First English translation of this well-known French novel, originally published in 1894, and the first with these illustrations by Uhlman. The tragi-comic work, which is a contemporary take on the Cinderella fairy tale, centres around the rejection by his parents, and his community, of a young red-headed boy known as carrot-top. The work is possibly made more familiar through its adaptation to screen. The exquisite and heartbreaking Poil de carotte (1932), directed by Julien Duvivier, is commonly regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema.…