The Exploits of Moominpappa

Jansson, Tove

ISBN 10: 0140303235 / ISBN 13: 9780140303230

Published by Penguin Books [Puffin], Harmondsworth, 1969

About this Item

1973. First Puffin edition of the third Moomin book. 135pp. Many full-page and in-text black and white illustrations by the author. The book is bound in the original card covers and is in very good condition with light shelf wear on the covers and a 5mm nick to the top of the front cover. The contents are secure and clean with age-browning around the edges of the pages. Previous owner's name to the top of the first page.

Seller Inventory # LitJansson02

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Exploits of Moominpappa
• Publisher: Penguin Books [Puffin], Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140303235
• ISBN 13: 9780140303230
• Binding: Softcovers
• Illustrator: Tove Jansson
• Edition: First Edition Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Children's

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.