1990 Esio Trot

Description

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

The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.

This was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime; he died just two months later.

This charming work follows an aging lonely man called Mr Hoppy, who tries to gain the attention of Mrs Silver, the widowed neighbour he has loved from afar for decades.

With a former owner's presentation inscription to the front free endpaper.