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Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. First thus, the Swedish edition with new illustrations by Tove Jansson. Printed in the Swedish language. Printed, illustrated wrappers, pp. 51, edges untrimmed. A Good condition copy of this lovely edition. Notiecable tanning around the margins of the wrappers front and rear (the contents are not affected. A couple of small stains to the lower wrapper. Corners creased and some impact damage to the front wrapper near the crown. Contents clean, free from foxing or previous ownership markings. Not in the best condition but still a decent copy and beautifully illustrated by the author of The Moomins.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. 1959. First Swedish edition, first printing. First Swedish edition, first printing. Original white card covers with titles in black, a small illustration in black to the lower cover, and an illustration in black, blue and green to the upper cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight full-page illustrations, smaller head and tail pieces throughout in black and white by Tove Jansson. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the wraps with a few faint marks and light toning to the extremities. The contents, lightly toned to the margins, are clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. An attractive example. Tove Jansson beautifully marries her distinctively restrained, whimsical style with Lewis Carroll's fantastical nonsense poem. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

1959. Stockholm; Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1959. 8vo. Original white card wrappers pictorially decorated in blue, black, and green to upper cover and in black to lower one, edges uncut; pp. [viii], 9-51 + [iv]; with title-page vignette, 8 bold and dramatic full-page black-and-white plates and 8 other drawings and decorations, all by Jansson; an uncommonly fresh, near fine, copy with mild external dusting, light toning to spine, and one small, and pale, mark to lower wrapper representing the untacky vestiges of a removed price label, internally near fine, crisp, and uninscribed with a minor, small, and pale, mark to lower margin of one leaf; scarce. First edition of Tove Jansson's enigmatic interpretation of Carroll's famous nonsense poem, with text in Swedish; unpublished in English until 2011. Only 4 copies listed on WorldCat (Malmo; Univ. of Texas; Nat. Lib. of Sweden and Princeton).

Helsinki: Holger Schildts förlag,, 1959. Warmly inscribed by the translator First edition in Swedish of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, and the first appearance of Tove Jansson's illustrations. Tove Jansson would later provide illustrations for the follow-up translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published 1966. This copy is familiarly inscribed by the translator Lars Forrell on the first blank: "Agneta, Arne och deras två små glin av gamle Lasse", ["Agneta, Arne, and their two little sprogs, from old Lasse"], very scarce thus. The Hunting of the Snark was originally published in 1876 by Macmillan & Co. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. Colour illustration to front wrapper, 8 full-page black and white illustrations and occasional illustrations in text. A bright fresh copy, a few small brown marks to front cover, sound, and clean within, very good condition indeed.