Description

• The first book in the much-loved Moomin series of novels for children
• With numerous b&w illustrations by the author
• Originally published in Swedish by Finnish author & illustrator Jansson
• Translated by Elizabeth Portch
• Third Impression [Ernest Benn, London, 1965]; 192 pages; blue cloth, gold titling on spine, design to front, red topstain, very faint foxing to edge of rear endpaper, a near-fine copy; in the excellent illustrated dustjacket, unclipped [16s net], front flap creased, edges rubbed, bumped at extremities, tiny chip at spine head

Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden, Sniff, the Muskrat and the Silk Monkey are only a few of the characters whom Tove Jansson has brought so entrancingly to life…