Raymond Briggs: 'Midnight Adventure', London, Hamish Hamilto...

Hammer

£270

Raymond Briggs: 'Midnight Adventure', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961, 1st edition, illustrated frontis/title page + numerous line drawings in text by Briggs throughout as called for, original pictorial boards and matching pictorial dust wrapper by Briggs (boards slight fading to extremities and slightly bumped head and foot of spine, else VGC; d/w some small part losses at corners/head & foot of spine and fading to spine and surrounding areas of front and rear wrap, else generally VGC, 6s6d price intact). The extremely scarce first book by Raymond Briggs (1934-2022), English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author; together with Arthur Calder-Marshall: 'The Fair to Middling', London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, 1st edition, black & white ills. by Raymond Briggs, original blue cloth lettered in silver, pictorial dust wrapper by Raymond Briggs (a few nicks & chips, else generally VGC, 15s price intact) (2)