The Sleeping Sword by Morpurgo Michael, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2002 First Edition, First Impression, With Number Line. Size Octavo, 118 Pages. Blue Hard Cover With Large Silver Sword To Front Cover And Silver Titles To The Spine, Blue End-Papers, Blue Illustrated Dust Jacket. Book Condition Fine, A Lovely Unread Copy. Dust Jacket Condition Near Fine, Slight Crease To Edges, Else Fine, Not Price Clipped. Bun Bendle Introduces Us To His Very First Story, Called The Sleeping Sword, Written After He Suddenly Became Blind. Nothing's Been The Same Since Bun Dived Off A Quay And Hit His Head On A Rock. What He Can't Bear To Tell Anyone Is That As Well As His Sight, The Accident Seems To Have Wiped Out Parts Of His Memory. In Despair, He Contemplates Suicide, But The Love Of His Great Friend Anna Saves Him. His Friends Petition For Him To Be Able To Stay On His Home Island Of Bryher In The Scilly Isles, And Not Be Sent Away To School. Calling His Father In For Tea One Day, Bun Falls Through A Cavity Under The Field. His Father's Tractor Rumbling Towards Him Just Manages To Stop, Inches Away. The Cavity Is A Tomb, Containing An Ancient And Beautiful Sword And Shield. Bun Is Immediately Drawn To Them, And As He Holds The Sword, Bedivere, A Knight Of The Round Table Appears And Commands Him To Take It To King Arthur. Taking Anna On His Quest, Bun Finds A Galleon Waiting At The Quay To Them To The King. Bun Suddenly Remembers Their Meeting Before, Told In Arthur, High King Of Britain, And Arthur Stands Before Them, A Warrior Reunited With His Shield And His Sword, Excalibur. Arthur Reveals His Purpose; Bun Must Drive Excalibur Back Into The Stone Until It Is Time For The King To Come Again. Bun And Anna Return To Bryher On The Ghost Ship, Hardly Believing What Has Happened Around Them. The Next Morning Bun Wakes To Find His Sight Restored, The Sword And Shield Safely In The Cavity In The Field And Anna Totally Unaware Of The Previous Night's Events. So Bun Concludes His Story, Proud To Have Written Such A Long One, And Anna Loves It. Bun Strolls Off To The Field Towards His Father's Tractor, And Suddenly Falls Down A Cavity. The Tractor Is Rumbling Towards Him. And He Knows Everything He's Dreamt Is About To Come True.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FOREMAN, Michael (illustrator). First Edition. Navy boards with silver decoration and lettering in pictorial dustwrapper. Previous owner name in pen twice and erased pencil mark to ffep. Toning to pages. Dustwrapper is unclipped with minor edgewear and indentation marks. An Arthurian fantasy. 118pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Foreman Michael (illustrator). 1st Edition. Childrens Book First Edition First Printing With All Numbers 1 To 10 With No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Found. Firm Tight And Clean - Appears Unread. Blue Cloth Hard Cover With Silver Gilt Titled Spine And Outline Of Silver Gilt Sword On Front - Slight Edge Wear (Rubbing To Small Portion Near Spine). Complete Jacket With Faint Edge Wear.

1st edn 1st printing signed by author on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 116, illus with b&w drawings by Michael Foreman (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed directly to Title page by Michael Morpurgo. First Edition/First printing published by Egmont, London 2002. Shelf and reading wear with bad bumping to bottom of spine and small loss to dustjacket. Bumping to other corners. DJ not price clipped. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 117pp., illusts., Signed by the author on the half-title page.