BANNER, Angela [Angela Mary MADDISON] (author). Bryan WARD (illustrator). Ant and Bee. An Alphabetical Story for Tiny Tots. Leicester Edmund Ward. [1951.]
£500.00
Landscape small 8vo. (124 x 94mm); publisher’s pictorial card covers; [ii], 5-109 + [i]; illustrated throughout in full colour; an uncommonly fresh copy of a scarce book, externally lightly dust-soiled and marked with rubbing to joints and tiny wear to spine ends and corner tips, a 3mm scuff to upper cover; internally fine and clean, without inscription; rare.
First edition, first printing, of the first Ant and Bee book, priced 3/- to inner upper cover, with printer’s details “Printed in England by Fleming & Humphreys (Baylis) Limited, Leicester” to verso of title, and without reference to any other books in the long series.
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