Astrid Lindgren - Emil and His Clever Pig - First UK Edition

Publisher: Brockhampton Press, London

Publication Date: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Berg, Björn

Condition: Very Good

First thus, the First UK Printing.

Extremely hard-to-find in anything approaching "decent" condition. These cheaply produced board-books have not stood the test of time well and are usually horribly foxed or in battered ex-library condition - if you can find them!

Fabric-covered, stiff paper boards, pp. 151, illustrated with line drawings by Berg. Remains square and straight, bumping to corners and spine tips. Rippling (or "bubbling) to the paper at the front paste-down but I have seen worse examples- restricted to the top quarter of the board.

No owner names etc and - remarkably - free from spotting/foxing: the bright boards and block are both very clean. VG indeed, near Fine, in fact.

The dust jacket is price-clipped. There is minor loss at the corners/spine tips (splitting) and there is rubbing/creasing along all the edges with a couple of surface scrapes here and there. Spotting to the inside of the jacket which appears to be more off-setting from the boards as opposed to being damp or mildew issues but you can never rule out the latter due to the poor quality of the paper used.

Not a perfect copy but probably the best of the very few examples which have crossed my path in many years.