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The Gruffalo.
by DONALDSON, Julia
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan Children's Books,, 2007. With an original ink drawing of the mouse First gift edition, signed by both the author and illustrator on the title page, with an original small ink drawing of the mouse by Scheffler alongside his signature. The Gruffalo was first published in 1999 and won the Smarties Book Prize in the same year. Quarto. Original green cloth, lettering to spine in gilt, illustration to front cover in gilt surrounding mounted colour illustration, vignette to rear cover in gilt, illustrated endpapers. Housed in the original pictorial slipcase. Colour illustrations throughout by Axel Scheffler. A fine copy.
Synopsis
A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo. . . .
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169401
- Title
- The Gruffalo.
- Author
- DONALDSON, Julia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Macmillan Children's Books,
- Date Published
- 2007
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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