"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: Bloomsbury, 1999. [Children's classic] FIRST PRINTING of the paperback edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.317; [3], blank. Publisher's softcovers with illustrations by Cliff Wright, priced at £5.99. Soft reading crease to spine, very good indeed. Item #62372
Winner of the Whitbread Prize (Children's Book of the Year). Listed in BBC's Big Read (200 Best Novels) [2003]. Errington A7(e).
Price: £50.00