Ploof The Wild Duck.
£50.00
Publisher
George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Place
London
Date
[1942?]
Synopsis
By lida. lithographs by rojan. translated by rose fyleman. (no. 3 of pere castor's wild animal books).
Item Description
Oblong 4to. 8.25 x 9 inches. 34 + [1] + [1] pp. publisher's series advertisement. In stiff card pictorial wrapper with red spine tape. A little wear to extremities and fore edge foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Decorated by title page vignette. Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books were high quality, beautifully illustrated children's books, written by Lida, and originally published in France in the 1930s, this title appearing as Canard sauvage in 1935. Translated by Rose Fyleman (1877-1957), children's writer, poet and translator. With the lithographs of Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky ('Rojan') (1891-1970), Russian emigre children's book illustrator.
[Stock No. 29520]
