The Exploits of Moominpappa

Jansson, Tove

ISBN 10: 0510130119 / ISBN 13: 9780510130114

Published by Ernest Benn Ltd, 1966

About this Item

Hardback in price clipped jacket repriced by the publisher. 'This edition has Moominpappa's original preface now translated for the first time, and a number of new drawings by Tove Jansson' Second UK edition, 5th impression from 1966.The book is in near fine condition with no inscriptions. The bright jacket has minor wear and a small closed tear top left front. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1743198180568

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Exploits of Moominpappa
• Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd
• Publication Date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0510130119
• ISBN 13: 9780510130114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.

About the Author

Tove Jansson was born in Helsingfors, Finland, in 1914. Her mother was a caricaturist who designed 165 of Finland's stamps and her father was a sculptor. She studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France, and subsequently became a book illustrator. Her extraordinary illustrative style is seen as a design classic the world over. Originally written in Swedish, the Moomintroll books have been translated into over 40 languages and adapted for television, film, radio and opera. Tove Jansson lived alone on a small island in the gulf of Finland, where most of her books were written. She died in 2001.