JANSSON, Tove. Sculptor's Daughter. London: Ernest Benn Limited. 1969.
8vo. Original two toned cloth boards and top edge orange; illustrated black and white photographic dust jacket by Per Olov Jansson with orange spine and black title lettering; pp. [viii], 175, [1]; very minimal rubbing to extremities and slight fading to spine; otherwise near fine.
First English edition.
Tove Jansson is best known for her legendary Moomintroll childrens books for which she was awarded the 1966 Hans Christian Anderson Award. Sculptor's Daughter was her first book for adults, although described as 'suitable for all ages', and a composition in which she displays the enchantment of childhood and yet the position of fear in which the child finds themselves as they grow up to encounter the terms of reality. A haunting memoir formed from a tapestry of vignettes or 'episodes' akin to short stories, Jansson beautifully renders her bohemian childhood memories in Helsinki through a merging of fantasy and the real.
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