Description:
HBDJ, 1948, 1ST EDITION EARLY ISSUE, VG+/VG- Very good. Condition: Very Good-: Very Good+++ picture cover hardback with Very Good- DustJacket WITH TINY CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, INTERIOR PGS FOXED in new Brodart, YELLOW DECORATED C LOTH MATCHES THE DJ ILLUSTRATION,.253 PGS ,Text is clean and unmarked. Yellow Binding with Blue & black & BrownIllustration on Front cvr is tight. Hinges are tight. Spine is straight. The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb - are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.