1994 The Bear

Description

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

First edition, first impression. 

With vanishingly scarce original clipped dust wrapper. 

Illustrated with thirty-eight pages of colourful images by the author.

When a red-haired girl names Tilly accidentally drops her toy bear into the pen of a young polar bear at London Zoo, she is shocked to watch it carry the toy to its cave. Later that night the bear comes to Tilly's home to return the toy. Written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs, an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who achieved critical and popular success. He is best known for his 1978 story The Snowman whose cartoon adaptation is televised and musical adaptation is staged each Christmas.