Description
Near Fine dust jacket illustrated with two tigers and a sailboat. The Near Fine binding is illustrated paper over boards. The book cover and dust jacket have the same illustration. Color illustrations by Bayley, Nicola. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 10.0″ tall x 7.7″ wide.
Stated “First American Edition”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Two young and inexperienced Tygers, having bought a small boat, set sail from Victorian England into the timeless unknown.
Their enchanted voyage is a gift to us from two magicians.
One is prodigiously famous, having already pulled an entire world of rabbits out of his hat: the incomparable Richard Adams who gave us Watership Down (and, of course, Shardik). His droll verses chart The Tyger Voyage.
The other, the young artist Nicola Bayley, is surely about to be famous–for we have not seen the like of her since the great days of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac.
Together, Richard Adams’s story and Nicola Bayley’s paintings lure us right through the printed page into the Victorian parlors and streets, the seas, the jungles, the frozen mountains and erupting volcanoes, the gypsy encampments, foreign railway stations and ceremonial halls where the Tygers go.
Funny and beautiful, The Tyger Voyage is all the storm-tossed voyages to far places we have dreamed of since childhood . magically encapsuled for our children’s-and our own– delight.
