Raymond Briggs — Ethel and Ernest

London, Jonathan Cape , 1998. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first impression of this moving graphic novel which tells the life story of the author's parents. The first edition, first impression, complete with the full number line. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Written and illustrated by Raymond Redvers Briggs, an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author best known for creating the popular and critically acclaimed 1978 story 'The Snowman&apos.This graphic novel chronicles the lives of Briggs' parents from their first meeting to their deaths, seeing through poignant moments of the uncertain and dark days of the Second World War, the birth of the Welfare State and the raising of Briggs himself. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with only minor shelf wear to the spine tail. Dust wrapper is very smart, with minor bumping to the extremities and a few handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine . Ill.: Raymond Briggs. Fine/Near Fine.