Posy Simmonds — Gemma Bovery
London , Jonathan Cape, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A delightful first edition, first impression of this tragicomic graphic novel. A first edition, first impression copy of this graphic novel. Posy Simmonds is a British newspaper cartoonist, writer and illustrator of children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian for which she drew the series Gemma Bovery. This is a stunning graphic novel that is the tragicomic story of the life and death of an English expatriate in Normandy, drawing many parallels to Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovery. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is also excellent. Fine . Ill.: Posy Simmonds. Fine/Fine.
