SERRAILLIER, Ian.

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The Bishop and the Devil. First edition, inscribed by the author to Raymond Briggs on the front free endpaper, "Raymond, with all good wishes, from Ian", and additionally signed on the title page. Serraillier and Briggs collaborated on The Tale of Three Landlubbers, published by Hamish Hamilton the preceding year.The posthumous book label of Briggs (1934-2022), illustrator, graphic novelist, cartoonist, and author, is on the front pastedown of each book. The winner of numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award, Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only... Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" (Horne, p. 124). He is chiefly remembered for Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1978), When the Wind Blows (1982), and the perennial classic The Snowman (1978).

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