FORESTER, C.S. (author). Robert LAWSON (illustrator). Poo-Poo and the Dragons; his book for children. London, Michael Joseph Ltd. 1963.
8vo. Original buttermilk pictorial cloth printed in blue, delightful double-page pictorial dragon endpapers, in pictorial dustwrapper, illustrated to both panels; pp. [iv], 5-188 + [i]; double-page illustrated title and frontispiece and 17 other striking dragon drawings printed in brown by Robert Lawson; both externally and internally a bright, freh copy with a pale orange streak (2.5cm) to one text leaf, in a remarkably good and attractive, unclipped dustwrapper (12s 6d) with small nicking at head of spine and some light general dusting.
First edition, fourth impression, published 21 years after the first. A popular twentieth-century children's classic illustrated by the creator of Wee Gillis and The Story of Ferdinand.
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