"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some light bumping to outer edges. Near fine. The life of the children's illustrator Helen Oxenbury (born 1938), twice-winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, and illustrator of classics such as 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' (1989), 'Farmer Duck' (1991), and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1999). Item #56937
Price: £50.00