Horton hatches the Egg
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1942 (first Australian edition)/ 1940.
Quarto, [47] pages with numerous illustrations (many of them double-page) printed in red, blue and black.
Flush-cut quarter cloth and colour-pictorial papered boards slightly rubbed at the extremities; top corners slightly bumped; rear board slightly marked; front hinge partially split but firm; contemporary juvenile ownership signature in pencil on the front flyleaf (with the number '57' added in ink); minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy.
The first Australian edition, 'Printed by Morris & Walker, Melbourne, for George Jaboor ... Australasian Representative of Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London'. The first edition was published by Random House in New York in 1940; the first UK edition was published by Hamish Hamilton in London in 1941.
Item #131833
Price (AUD):
$400.00