Price: £550
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1946
Stock Number: 73984
(Your basket is currently empty)Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
Description: FIRST EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece and 3 further colour plates with further line drawings to the text, pp. vi, 286, crown 8vo, original blue cloth with vignette stamped in gilt to bottom corner of upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt and lightly sunned through the jacket, endpaper maps, dustjacket by Hodges, a little browned to backstrip panel and borders, slgihtly rubbed and chipped at extremities, very goodPublication Details: University of London Press, 1946
Notes: The winner of the Carnegie Medal that year, and the subject of renewed interest when nominated by J.K. Rowling as her favourite children's book.
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