1986-2014 Past Eight O'Clock; A Foot in the Grave; The Thousand Nights and One Night; The Glass Mountain

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

The first editions, first impressions of these works. 

Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.

This set offers four excellent short-story collections, each of which are brought to life with Jan Pienkowski's illustrations. 

Pienkowski was a Polish-born British author of children's books and a designer of movable books, best known for illustrating the 'Meg and Mog' picture book series. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award

Past Eight O'Clock (1986) - A collection of eight stories by Joan Aiken about the mysterious world of sleeping, dreams and bedtime.

A Foot in the Grave (1989) - A haunting combination of Joan Aiken's stories and Pienkowski's striking paintings. Featuring eery ghosts against modern backdrops. 

The Thousand Nights and One Night (2007) - Retellings of classic tales from Arabian Nights by David Walser. 

The Glass Mountain (2014) - A retelling of eight of the best-loved Polish folk tales by David Walser, with Pienkowski's vibrant and witty paper cut illustrations.