[Manuscript] Professor Invento and His Best Inventions

Sewell, John

Data di pubblicazione: 1977

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Fun manuscript, about matchmaking robot, of book published in 1977, with a signed copy of the book included. Manuscript with 29 pages of color illustrations. The manuscript is much more eye catching than the published result, as all the illustrations, as opposed to just 13, are rendered in color, not to mention a somewhat larger format. Book is 4to, 26 by 19 cm, unpaginated, 16 leaves, and was published by Heinemann, in London. Leaves of manuscript are 29 by 20.5 cm. Story about a lone inventor of all sorts of crazy inventions who invents a robot called Inventomate who finds a mate created by a female inventor who becomes the Professor's mate. We date the manuscript 1977, but in all likelihood it was done a year or two earlier, as the manuscript doesn't name the publisher, and so we infer that a publisher had not yet been secured and so there would have been some passage of time between the manuscript and the publication date. The artwork strikes us as fusing a Pop Art aesthetic we associate with the sixties and seventies with the naive and somewhat streamlined styling of so many children's book illustrations of the period. We also find the story line a somewhat eccentric variant of the quintessential whimsy of juvenile literatiure. As with the best of juvenile literature, the intended audience was adult as much as it was children. Manuscript leaves are contained in thick plastic sleeves. Binder for manuscript. Book itself is hardcover, with glossy paper pastedown on cover.

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• Titolo: [Manuscript] Professor Invento and His Best Inventions
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Original Art
  • Children's Literature
  • Manuscripts