The winter of the Birds

by Helen Cresswell

$30 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Children's fiction . INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp.204. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anthony Maitland. Signed and inscribed to flyleaf: For Caroline | with very best | wishes | Helen Cresswell | Old Church Farm | 1978 . Some spotting to edges, cloth a little bumped and rubbed to extremities. Dust-jacket shows well with some creasing and nicking to the top

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