"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some bumping to corners. Ring mark to front cover of jacket, with rubbing and light chipping to jacket. Very good. A charming short tale about a family of small change. Item #60387
Price: £245.00
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