From Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 18 April 2000
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First edition with these illustrations. Translated into Swedish by Lars Forssell and Ake Runnquist. Octavo. 55 pages. Cover design in black and green, 8 full-page and many other smaller black-and-white illustrations by Tove Jansson. Original wrappers.Jansson's strange and inspired illustrations for The Hunting of Snark match perfectly the imaginative flight of the poem. She was approached by the Swedish translators who correctly divined that the poem would appeal to the creator of the Moomin books. The Snark is nowhere portrayed and in her essay The Deceitful Children's Author (1961) Jansson writes, "Wouldn t it almost be a crime to depict the Snark s terrible and ineffable face whose sight causes immediate dissolution into nothingness?" The illustrations had been forgotten for over fifty years, and in fact this is the only Swedish edition, until they were recently given a fresh lease of life in an English edition of the poem. Ownership signature inside upper cover. Edges a little creased. Near fine. Scarce. Seller Inventory # JANSSONT004587
Bibliographic Details
Title: Snarkjakten.
Publisher: Bonniers, Stockholm.
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
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