Publication details: Stockholm: Albert Bonniers,1959,
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A wonderful edition of Carroll's poem, with Jansson's illustrations - full of her characteristically sombre and quizzical expressions - capturing its mood perfectly. A sparkling copy, and scarce thus - the illustrations were used for an English language version by the Tate Gallery in 2012, but this is their original publication.The translator, Lars Forssell, was a major literary figure in his homeland with a diverse career, from poetry and journalism to song lyrics - including the Swedish Eurovision entry in 1973.
FIRST SWEDISH EDITION, frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations by Tove Jansson as well as numerous tail-piece decorations, pp. 52, crown 8vo, original wrappers with Jansson illustrations to both covers (that to front colour-printed), faintly sunned to backstrip and borders, tiny faint mark at head of left-margin of front, top corner of rear chipped with a very light patch of abrasion beneath, very good
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