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Editore: London: William Heinemann, 1907, 1907
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, third impression overall. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges green, with green endpapers. A touch of spotting, otherwise a crisp, clean copy, with light wear to cloth and a little toning to spine. Near fine. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Irving's slumbersome story is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend.
Codice articolo 68087
Editore: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936, 1936
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.317; [3], ads. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black, blue endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. Typed notice with one ms. correction (possibly authorial) tipped in to p.11 Contents clean, binding rather bright. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has one discreet stamp, tag to rear endpaper, and neat 'withdrawn' notice to front endpaper. Institutional marking aside, this is a clean, bright copy. Jacket chipped to crown, one-inch loss across foot. Shows well. A Dr. Thorndyke detective story collection. Dr Richard Austin Freeman lived in Gravesend, Kent, where at least one of his novels was based. He served on the Library Committee and as footpaths expert for Gravesend Historical Society, and signed their holdings of his books. In 2007 these were sold off to a friend of the Library, to raise funds (replacements were donated, Kent County Council redacted letter of provenance provided). A rare signed copy with guaranteed authenticity. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p137-141.
Codice articolo 68099
Editore: London: William Heinemann, 1905, 1905
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression overall. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges grey, with grey endpapers. A black ink ownership to title page, and the illustrated bookplate of Gertrude Zaehnsdorf to front pastedown. Some toning a quite heavy spotting to text leaves, otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear to spine. Very good. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Irving's slumbersome story is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend.
Codice articolo 68088
Editore: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926, 1926
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], ads. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black. Contents clean, binding rather bright. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has a small library stamp to c.p., tag to rear endpaper, neat 'withdrawn' notice to front endpaper and shelf number to foot of spine. Institutional marking aside, this is a clean, bright copy. A Dr. Thorndyke detective novel. Dr Richard Austin Freeman lived in Gravesend, Kent, where at least one of his novels was based. He served on the Library Committee and as footpaths expert for Gravesend Historical Society, and signed their holdings of his books. In 2007 these were sold off to a friend of the Library, to raise funds (replacements were donated, Kent County Council redacted letter of provenance provided). Vintage Gravesend bookseller ticket to rear. A rare signed copy with guaranteed authenticity. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p137-141.
Codice articolo 68096
Editore: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922, 1922
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.336. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black. Contents clean, binding rather bright, jacket flap tucked in. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has a small library stamp to c.p., tag to rear endpaper, neat 'withdrawn' notice to front endpaper and shelf number to foot of spine. Institutional marking aside, this is a clean, bright copy. A Dr. Thorndyke detective novel. Dr Richard Austin Freeman lived in Gravesend, Kent, where at least one of his novels was based. He served on the Library Committee and as footpaths expert for Gravesend Historical Society, and signed their holdings of his books. In 2007 these were sold off to a friend of the Library, to raise funds (replacements were donated, Kent County Council redacted letter of provenance provided). A rare signed copy with guaranteed authenticity. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p137-141.
Codice articolo 68095
Editore: New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2022, 2022
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.394. Number 59 of 75 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards, grey endpapers. Fine / as-new. The Deluxe Edition from The Mysterious Bookshop is the true first edition.
Codice articolo 68031
Editore: New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2021, 2021
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.394. Number 4 of 60 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards, grey endpapers. Smudge to fore-edge, either a production fault or transit mark. A fine, as-new copy. The Deluxe Edition from The Mysterious Bookshop is the true first edition.
Codice articolo 68030
Editore: London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1942, 1942
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Murder Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no ink inscriptions, inside paper joint cracked, cloth a little bumped and used, some sunning to spine. A very good copy lacking the scarce jacket. Agatha Christie's second Miss Marple novel, and one of the most famous titles from the world's best-known mystery writer. This classic whodunnit is ranked among her very best works.
Codice articolo 68016
Editore: London: Hutchinson, 1981, 1981
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Post-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 397; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardcover, red endpapers, in photographic dust-wrapper priced £6.95. Fine in near fine jacket. Thrilling novel concerning unearthed secret documents from the war, including the notes to a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill when negotiating the terms of a British surrender. From the Jon Gilbert collection (pencil signature within). Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.42.
Codice articolo 68020
Editore: Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850, 1850
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with an UNRECORDED state of the ads. Octavo (18 x 12cm) pp.[iv]; 322, title page printed in red and black. Earliest state of the text with the following points; 'reduplicate' p.21 l.20. 'characterss' p.41 l.5. 'Catechism' p.132 l.29. 'known of it' p.199 l.4. Publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt titles and blind decoration. Contents clean, rear paper joint cracked, engraved bookplate of Donald S. Tuttle, neat cloth repair to head and tail of spine, light wear to corners. Faint stamp to endpaper together with contemporary inscription (April 1850). The advertisements in this copy are dated October 1849 (not recorded by Jacob Blanck -most are dated March 1850). Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic investigation of the American mind; a tale of repentance, repression and guilt in seventeenth century Boston. Clark and Pittsburgh [A16]; Bibliography of American Literature [7600].
Codice articolo 68053
Editore: London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1912], 1912
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black and gilt. Contents clean, binding rather bright with light rubbing to rear. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has one discreet stamp, tag to rear e.p., neat 'withdrawn' notice to f.e.p. and shelf number to foot of spine. Institutional marking aside, this is a clean, bright copy. A Dr. Thorndyke detective story collection. Dr Richard Austin Freeman lived in Gravesend, Kent, where at least one of his novels was based. He served on the Library Committee and as footpaths expert for Gravesend Historical Society, and signed their holdings of his books. In 2007 these were sold off to a friend of the Library, to raise funds (replacements were donated, Kent County Council redacted letter of provenance provided). A rare signed copy with guaranteed authenticity. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p137-141.
Codice articolo 68098
Editore: London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913], 1913
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.389; [1], blank. Utility binding of blue cloth lettered in gilt, edges speckled red. Contents mostly clean, some leaves proud, sewn hinge of first two leaves with paper re-inforcement, binding handled. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has one stamp, tag to rear endpaper, neat 'withdrawn' notice to f.e.p. and shelf number to foot of spine. Dr. Richard Austin Freeman lived in Gravesend, Kent, where at least one of his novels was based. He served on the Library Committee and as footpaths expert for Gravesend Historical Society, and signed their holdings of his books. In 2007 these were sold off to a friend of the Library, to raise funds (replacements were donated, Kent County Council redacted letter of provenance provided). A rare signed copy with guaranteed authenticity. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p137-141.
Codice articolo 68100
Editore: London: Bloomsbury, 2000, 2000
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Fantasy adventure] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with full strike-line number sequence. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.636; [4]. Publisher's soft covers illustrated by Giles Greenfield, priced at £6.99. No inscriptions, contents clean, covers are fresh with a gentle roll to spine. Near fine. Philip Errington; J.K. Rowling. A Bibliography 1997-2013 (London, Bloomsbury, 2015).
Codice articolo 68070
Editore: London: Bloomsbury, 2004, 2004
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Fantasy adventure] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with full strike-line number sequence. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.766 [2]. Publisher's softcovers illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £7.99. No inscriptions, contents clean, covers are fresh with a gentle roll to spine. Near fine. The fifth Harry Potter adventure which was shortlisted for Prometheus Award [Libertarian Science Fiction], 2004. Philip Errington, 'J.K. Rowling. A Bibliography' (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
Codice articolo 68071
Editore: London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906, 1906
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Biography] FIRST EDITION, PRIMARY BINDING. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 470 [2]. With 26 illustrations, including a tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles and gilt motif to upper board and spine. Publisher's imprint in blind to lower. Top edge gilt. Lightly toned throughout with occasional spotting and marking. Foxing to tissue-guard. Toning/offsetting to endpapers. Gutter visible in a few areas, binding still stable. A few scuffs to cloth, dulling to spine gilt, rubbing to joints. General edgewear. Very good.
Codice articolo 68051
Editore: London: Viking, 1995, 1995
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 26cm), pp.62; [2]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. In-text and full page illustrations throughout by Blake. Very slight rolling to crown of spine. Fine. 'The Magic Finger' was first published in the USA in 1966. This edition featuring illustrations by everyone's favourite Dahl-illustrator, Quentin Blake, was first published by Viking in 1995.
Codice articolo 67962
Editore: London: Blackie and Son, 1938, 1938
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Motoring] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 183; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in black to front-board and spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 5s. to front flap. Eight photographic plates throughout. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, sunning to spine, 2cm tear to crown of jacket spine, sunning to spine. Very good. Malcolm Campbell was a British racing motorist and motoring journalist. This book was described as a 'valuable manual for all motorists' by the publishers in 1938, and the content is divided into three sections: The Car and its Mechanism, The Car and How to Drive it, and The Road Traffic Acts and the Motorist.
Codice articolo 67971
Editore: London: The Bodley Head, 1953, 1953
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.138; [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 9s 6d to front flap. In-text illustrations throughout. Light spotting to bottom of textblock, sunning to back cover of jacket. Near fine. 'Satan in the Suburbs' was Russell's first work of fiction. After working as a philosopher and mathematician, Russell's decision to write this collection of short stories was as much of a surprise to him as his readers: 'I do not think that the reader's surprise to find me attempting stories can be any greater than my own'. This copy is in particularly nice condition.
Codice articolo 67948
Editore: London: World Distributors, 1963, 1963
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Modern Literature] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.122; [6]. Illustrated soft-covers with printed price of 3'6 to front cover. Toning to textblock, creasing to top corner of front cover, wearing to ink to spine. Very good. Picking up where 'On the Road' left off in Mexico City, 'Tristessa' explores the profound tragedies of drug addiction and prostitution. This is the first paperback edition of 'Tristessa' and was published in 1963.
Codice articolo 67983
Editore: New York, NY: Random House, 1969, 1969
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Drama] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 107; [9]. Black quarter cloth, pink paper over boards. Lettered in gilt to spine. House motif in blind stamped to upper. INSCRIBED by the author to Joyce Grenfell in blue ink to flyleaf. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, wearing and marking to pink boards, bumping to corners and rolling to spine. Very good. Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) was an English writer and actress. This book is inscribed to her on the title page in blue ink, and the inscription reads: Oct. 1970 | Dearest Joyce | Thank you for letting | me have one of the best | lines in the play, | I send this with much | gratitude - and even | more love. | Leonard.
Codice articolo 67972
Editore: London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1968, 1968
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill priced 21s. Contents clean, ink name to front endpaper, jacket is used, with some chips and tears, rubs etc., spine sunned. Overall very good. The fourth of five books starring series favourites Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, this time investigating a sinister painting of a house.
Codice articolo 68065
Editore: London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1956, 1956
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth titled in black, original printed dust-wrapper, unpriced for export. No inscriptions, colourful bookplate to front endpaper. A very good copy with some chips and tears to the jacket, rubbed in places. Ariadne Oliver, the famous crime writer who bears a passing resemblance to Christie, sets up a murder mystery event at a West Country fete, and invites her old friend Hercule Poirot to visit. Unsurprisingly, the party provokes a real murder. A salutary lesson in Sod's law: if you intend to host a murder mystery party, do not invite real detectives.
Codice articolo 68063
Editore: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1922, 1922
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.312; [4], advertisements. Elegantly bound in dark green full oasis morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers. Internally clean, spine very lightly aged. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding, circa 1990s. The author's scarce second novel, being the first adventure for her popular series characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Wagstaff and Poole; A Christie Bibliography. See also Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction. HUBIN; Crime Fiction IV.
Codice articolo 68052
Editore: London: Penguin Books, 2020, 2020
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Young Adult Short Story] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[8]; 68; [6]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf tipped in ahead of the half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to upper, and light blue endpapers. With the green dust-jacket, also illustrated by Duxbury, priced at £7.99. Frequent in-text woodcut illustrations by Duxbury. Signed by the author sticker to front of jacket. As new. A short tale following Lyra's visit to some old friends in the North, chronologically between the events at the end of the His Dark Materials trilogy and the second Book of Dust volume, The Secret Commonwealth. This book is signed by the author in blue ink to the 'Exclusive Signed Edition' page.
Codice articolo 67945
Editore: London: Pan Books, 1962, 1962
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Modern Literature] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.188; [1]; [3], publisher's advertisements. Illustrated softcovers with printed price of 2'6 to front cover. Toning to textblock. Near fine. Published a year after 'On the Road,' Kerouac's 'The Dharma Bums' continues in the same vein of 'Kerouac-ian' existentialism, as the semi-autobiographical characters climb mountains in search of truth. The first edition of 'The Dharma Bums' was published in 1959, and this first paper back edition was first published in 1962.
Codice articolo 67980
Editore: London: Robert Hale and Company, 1969, 1969
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 X 13cm), pp.190; [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews with printed price of 18/- and (90p) to front-flap. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Toning to edges of textblock, sunning to jacket, some minor tearing to jacket spine. Very good. This copy is signed by the author in black ink to flyleaf: to Susan Thompson | from Toby | alias Tobias Wells.
Codice articolo 67975
Editore: London: Jonathan Cape, 1972, 1972
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2]; 90; [4]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Jacket price-clipped. Near Fine. This play takes place in a changing room before, during, and after a Rugby League game. The play was initially staged at the Royal Court Theatre, and after its triumphant run there, it transferred to the London's West End Globe Theatre in the December of 1971.
Codice articolo 67973
Editore: London: Faber and Faber, 1995, 1995
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Essay] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.158. Publisher's mint green soft covers lettered in black to front and spine with publication date of '14 February 1996' and printed price of £9.99 to back cover, with photographic dust-jacket. Some wearing and marking to dust-jacket. Fine. Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst, and this book explores letters that are never sent. Leader attempts to answer questions about letter-writing that are rooted in the nature of sexual desire.
Codice articolo 67964
Editore: London: Bloomsbury, 2000, 2000
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
[Fantasy adventure] FIRST DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the artist Giles Greenfield. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.636; [4], blank. Publisher's purple cloth, all edges gilt, gilt titles to spine and upper with pictorial illustration laid down, autographed by Greenfield. A fine, unread copy. Over many years Adrian Harrington Ltd has built an unequalled relationship with all the illustrators of the Harry Potter jackets and are the primary source for autographs and artwork. Philip Errington; J.K. Rowling. A Bibliography 1997-2013 (London, Bloomsbury, 2015), A9(b).
Codice articolo 68068
Editore: London: Jonathan Cape, 1948, 1948
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
[Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.222. Publisher's teal cloth lettered and illustrated in green to front-board and spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. In-text illustrations throughout by the author. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, sunning to spine and top edge, bumping to corners, sunning to jacket with some spotting to back cover. Very good. The story of 'The Elephant and the Kangaroo' follows an eccentric English writer who is visited by an archangel at his home in Ireland. This angel brings the distressing news of a flood, and the people of Burkestown build a boat from an old Dutch barn in order to survive.
Codice articolo 67978