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London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOFS FOR THE CASED EDITION (on front cover states "probable publication date 4 September 1989"). Prepublication First Edition. Blue soft cover. 330pp. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Anthology of tales of love lost and found, letters on marriage and fatherhood, together with reflections on cigarette-smoking, baseball and the perils of nearsightedness, including six new pieces - some of the selections were written for The New Yorker. Keillor states that the stories are "at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people". Garrison Keillor is an American storyteller, humourist, columnist, satirist and radio personality. The host of "A Prairie Home Companion" on the Minnesota Public Radio Show - heard in Britain on BBC 7 "Garrision Keillor's Radio Show". He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased and paperback editions (actually copied by Faber from corrected page proofs). Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 18 September 1989.] 55pp. Green soft cover. Clean text pages. "Wolfwatching" was Hughes' 14th collection of poetry - he digs deeply into his own childhood and his family history, as well as writing about nature's violence and the meaning he finds in it. Included in the collection is the poem "The Black Rhino" written for the purpose of raising funds to save this endangered animal. The Library Journal considered reading Wolfwatching was "like visiting a zoo envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch: we're caught between fright and fascination". He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. Ted Hughes is considered one of England's finest modern poets - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year in two… Read More

USA: Purnell Books, 1985 Some shelf and age wear, slight crease on back cover. Clean text pages, no markings on pages. Tight binding. Published in 1985 at the time of the release of the Disney film of the same name. Cover and pages are fully illustrated in colour. "When his pig, Hen Wen, is captured by the Horned King, Taran sets out to get her back before she reveals the whereabouts of the Black Cauldron with which the Horned King could destroy the world. The Black Cauldron (also known as Taran and the Magic Cauldron) is a 1985 American animated dark fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 25th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it is loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are, in turn, based on Welsh mythology.