First edition, first printing. Original dark green cloth, in the Susan Einzig illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated by Einzig with black and white in-text drawings throughout. A very good or better copy, the binding firm, the cloth rubbed at the extremities. There is some very faint spotting to the prelims, the contents are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper which has a few tiny chips to the spine tips, slight fading to the spine and a two short closed tears at the edges of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (10s 6d on the front flap).
A Carnegie Medal winning classic children's novel about a boy who is sent to live with relatives in an old house where he discovers that at the stroke of midnight he is able to enter a ghostly Victorian garden where there was once only a paved yard.
Stock code: 28036
£575