HOBAN, Russell (author). Quentin BLAKE (illustrator). How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen. London Jonathan Cape. 1974
£45.00
Slim 4to.; original pictorial boards in repeat dustwrapper; pp. [32]; illustrated throughout in colour; a very good copy, both externally and internally, without inscription, and with bruising to spine ends, in an equally good, unclipped dustwrapper (£1.50, crossed through) with overall dusting and very slight scoring.
First edition of an early Blake title. Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong is forced to call in the seven-foot-tall terror Captain Najork, and his hired sportsmen, to keep her young nephew Tom on the straight and narrow.
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