Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (Oxford, 1962) Illustrated by Susan Einzig
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
Oxford University Press, reprint 1962
Originally published in 1958 and a classic of children’s literature, with illustrations by Susan Einzig.
Hardback – publisher’s cloth, in price-clipped dustwrapper. pp. [6], 229, including b/w illustrations. 8.75 x 5.75 inches approx. (222mm x 145mm).
Light wear and rubbing to dustwrapper. Some spotting/loss of colour to edges of boards; an ink ‘squiggle’ to front free endpaper; occasional grubby mark or stain otherwise pages generally very clean; edge of page-block dusty and marked.
Nonetheless, remains a reasonably nice copy in a particularly well preserved dustwrapper.
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