Lot 327
Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, first printing, 1958.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, first printing, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, original cloth, light sunning to spine and to upper and lower edges, dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, fore-edges neatly strengthened and repaired on verso, spine with neat repairs to foot, some light rubbing to extremities but a very good example overall of a scarce jacket, 8vo, 1958.
⁂ The first of Michael Bond's Paddington books in which he created his much beloved marmalade-adoring eponymous bear. Increasingly rare in the jacket.
Description
Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, first printing, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, original cloth, light sunning to spine and to upper and lower edges, dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, fore-edges neatly strengthened and repaired on verso, spine with neat repairs to foot, some light rubbing to extremities but a very good example overall of a scarce jacket, 8vo, 1958.
⁂ The first of Michael Bond's Paddington books in which he created his much beloved marmalade-adoring eponymous bear. Increasingly rare in the jacket.
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