FIRST EDITION: A BOOK OF GHOSTS AND GOBLINS ‘The writer who has done most to keep magic alive in the sixties is surely Ruth Manning Sanders, who retells legends and folk tales, stories about dwarfs and giants, with a compulsive directness’ <em>Guardian 1968.</em>

First Edition, 1968. Turquoise cloth covered boards incorporating gilt titling to spine in excellent condition. Original dust jacket illustrated by Robin Jacques shows only very slight shelf wear to edges. Small clean tear circa 1cm to bottom front edge. Very small nicks to spine top and tail. Colours remain vibrant. Contents crisp, fresh and largely unread. Front and rear endpapers clean. Front loose endpaper contains previous owner’s handwritten name, ‘Peter G Harper. 28 October 69’. b/w frontispiece illustration by Robin Jacques. b/w full page and partial page illustrations throughout. Laid in is a paper cutting of an obituary for the book’s illustrator, ‘one of the most gifted illustrator’s of his generation’, hand dated 30-3- 95. 127 pp.