Published by Holger Schildts Förlag, Helsinki, 1962. Hardcover. First edition of Det osynliga barnet by Tove Jansson — the original Swedish-language first edition of the short story collection published in English as Tales from Moominvalley, which includes the story The Invisible Child. Quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Pp. 166, illustrated throughout by the author with vignettes and full-page drawings.
This copy includes a cut signature of Tove Jansson neatly pasted to the title page.
Condition: Fine. A clean and bright copy with only very minor bumping and slight colour loss at the corners. No ownership inscriptions; free from the print soiling often seen at the rear board of this edition.
