"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.87. Publisher's black cloth in black pictorial dust-jacket priced £9.99. Internally clean and free from spotting; spine-ends a touch bumped. Dust-wrapper is rubbed with minor chips and tears at spine ends. Very Good. Ted Hughes' classic of environmental children's fiction, following as a sequel to The Iron Man (1968), known as "The Iron Giant" in the United States. Item #53967
Price: £45.00