The Sixpence that Rolled Away

by Louis Macneice, Edward Bawden

$375 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Faber and Faber, 1956. Children's Illustrated FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 16cm , pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some bumping to corners. Ring mark to front cover of jacket, with rubbing and light chipping to jacket. Very good.

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