Published by Sörlin’s Förlag, Norrköping, 1956. Hardcover. the revised Swedish edition of the 1946 Kometjakten, retitled and reworked, and the version on which the English translation Comet in Moominland is based. 156 pages, illustrated throughout by the author with vignettes and half and full-page drawings.
Inscribed by Tove Jansson at the half-title: “To ‘Lena’ with greetings/wishes for a Happy Christmas” - two further names have been added to the salutation by others.
Condition: Very Good. Surface wear along the edges of the boards with a few minor scrapes to the upper cover. Text block reasonably fresh and not browned; binding firm with intermittent cracking through the block. Uncommon with inscription and signature.
