Webb (Clifford) A Jungle Picnic
£95
London & New York, Frederick Warne, 1934.
First edition. 4to. Original pictorial boards. Pictorial dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
Attractively lithographed children’s book by an artist & illustrator known for his work with the Golden Cockerel Press and for the early ‘Swallows and Amazons’ titles.
In stock
Internally very good; boards with minor damage to head of spine; jacket with loss to spine ends and one fore corner.
Illustrations by the author.
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