FARMER GILES OF HAM

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange boards with illustration in blue to the upper board and blue titles to the spine, in the Pauline Baynes illustrated dustwrapper. With a colour frontispiece, one further full page illustration and numerous line drawings throughout the text by Pauline Baynes. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm a little rubbing at the spine tips and corners, the boards are bright and fresh. The contents, with a small previous owner's signature on the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has tiny chips to the fold corners and a bit of dustiness to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (6s net to the lower front flap).

The first printing was published in an edition of 4,500 copies on 20 October 1949.