What’s this? It’s me, Moomin.
JANSSON, Tove (author and illustrator); Margery ALLINGHAM (introduction). Moomin [including “Moomin and the Brigands”, “Moomin and Family Life”, and “Moomin on the Riveria”]. London: Allan Wingate. 1957.
4to. Publisher’s illustrated boards with printed price of 9/6 to front board; pp. 87, with comic strip illustrations, [1, (blank)]; wearing to edges of boards, illustrated card worn at spine, sunning to spine, infrequent light marking throughout, a little spotting to edges of text block and endpapers; very good.
First edition of a charming comic book following the escapades of Moomin and his friends.
In 1948, Finn Family Moomin Troll was Jansson’s first book published in English, and the Moomin comics were first introduced to English readers in 1954 when they were published in London’s The Evening News. These publications resulted in an international fanbase.
Although charming and kind, Moomin often finds himself in scrapes. “Moomin and the Brigands” finds him sleeping outside of his own house because he has allowed too many of his “poor relations” to come and live with him. In “Moomin and Family Life”, he is left to fend for himself while his parents decide to go on an adventure. It also transpires in “Moomin on the Riveria”, that Jansson’s quirky characters don’t quite understand the meaning of “hotel”…
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