Item #159351 THE NIGHT-WATCHMEN. Helen Cresswell.

THE NIGHT-WATCHMEN.

Illustrated by Gareth Floyd. Pp. title page vignette, text illustrations (some full page); cr. 8vo; pictorial grey paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, small staple near top fore-corner of upper wrapper; Andre Deutsch, London, 1988. Proof copy. *One of the Runners-up for the 1969 Carnegie Medal, The Night-Watchmen later won the 1989 Phoenix Award winner from the Children's Literature Association, recognising it as the best children's book that did not win a major contemporary award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. (The award is named for the mythical bird that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the book's rise from relative obscurity). Item #159351

Price: $30.00

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