1961 Down in the Cellar

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The scarce first edition of this work. 

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. 

An excellent copy of this whimsical children's book. Four young siblings – Bruce, Julia, Andrew and Deirdre Jefferson – are staying in their uncle’s rambling Rectory in the South Downs when they find an injured man in a cave. The man tells them he is on the run, and they decide to hide him in a half-forgotten cellar of the Rectory.

From British actor, playwright and children's fantasy author, Nicholas Stuart Gray. He often produced adaptations or continuations of traditional fairy tales and fantasy works, including 'The Stone Cafe', a re-telling of 'Rapunzel' from a cat's point of view.