gill marjory (1 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good+. FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver. Lean to spine, extremities bumped, top edge foxed. Inscribed in blue pen by Elizabeth Portch to ffep: "To Minie, with love from, the translator. Christmas 1964.", some foodie finger-marks and fox spots, musty. Else, bright. In the original Margaret Gill-illustrated dust jacket in olive, pink and black: price-clipped, toned and foxed, edgewear and nicking, esp. spine ends. Good+/ Good+ A well-handled copy of the first British edition of Merja Otava's best-selling YA novel, portraying "the thoughts and dreams" of a young Finish teenage girl as she struggles to grow-up and to write, inscribed by its translator, Elizabeth Portch, best known for her English translations of Tove Jansson's Moomin novels.