Price: £30
Subject: Childrens
Published Date: 1959
Stock Number: 72779
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, colour-printed illustrations throughout, in shades of red and green, pp. 32, 4to, original illustrated boards, head and foot of spine a little knocked, a few light handling marks, very good
Publication Details: Methuen, 1959
Notes: The tale of an elderly woman who receives a pet boa constrictor for her birthday, wittily illustrated by the artist, whose decades-spanning career earned him the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1998.
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