Mister Postlethwaite's Reindeer. Written & Illustrated by Richard Chopping.
London: Transatlantic Arts Ltd., 1945. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small square octavo (17 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 89; [1], blank. With black & white drawings. Publisher's mid-blue cloth hardcovers lettered in navy, pictorial dust-jacket designed by the author, priced down to 3/6 via publisher's label. Foxing within (as always), covers are fresh, bright jacket with a chip to head and tail of spine. Very good. The author's second book, and his first work of fiction. He later found fame as the illustrator of the memorable series of jacket designs which adorned Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Item #72707
Gilbert p.637.
Price: £195.00
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