Translated by Valdemar Paulsen, with illustrations by Milo Winter. Pp. 286, coloured frontispiece and 9 plates, illustrated endpapers; small cr. 4to; blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, with pictorial onlay to upper board (with a 5 cm. x 3.5 cm. piece torn from centre of picture), edges lightly worn;..... More
Pp. [vi]+260(last blank); cr. 8vo; printed light blue paper wrappers, faintly soiled and a trifle sprung; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1986. U.K. edition, uncorrected proof copy. *Winner of the 1984 International Reading Association's Children's Book Award and the PEN United States Literary Award. The first..... More
Illustrations and decorations by Percy Leason. Pp. 112, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 4 plates, numerous black & white pictorial head & tailpieces, decorative borders and initials; cr. 4to; qr. beige cloth with printed paper title label on spine, grey papered boards, upper board lettered & decorated in navy, the boards..... More
Pp. 20(including the wrappers, colophon and blanks), coloured frontispiece and 4 full page illustrations, black & white pictorial head & tailpiece, full page map with pictorial border; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled (slightly rusted); within the original plain envelope, which is slightly soiled and worn; The British Imperial..... More
Pp. 160, illustrated in colour throughout, pictorial endpapers; demy 4to; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Ebury Press, London, 2006. First edition. More