first edition
1947 · London
by BEMELMANS, Ludwig
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; red cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 154,[1]pp. Offsetting from flaps onto endpapers, a few small scuffs to rear cover, a few faint creases to preliminary pages; Very Good+. Dustjacket is oddly price-clipped, slightly shelfworn, with several short tears, shallow loss to crown, and a nickel-sized ink spot to lower rear panel; Very Good only. "In six large notebooks and a portfolio of more than a hundred drawings, Ludwig Bemelmans captured for himself the spirit of three trips to South America" (from front flap). The UK edition is preceded by the American (truncated)