Double-signed and doodled.

BECHSTEIN, Ludwig; Axel SCHEFFLER [Illus.]; Julia DONALDSON [Trans.] ~ The Gloomster. Signed by the illustrator and translator, with a drawing.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Faber and Faber, London: 2011.

Small 8vo., green publisher's boards, lettered in white to spine with publisher's device to foot; dark grey endpapers; together in the unclipped printed dustwrapper (£9.99) featuring a design by Faber and illustrations by Axel Scheffler; proliferated throughout with coloured drawings by the same; THE BOOK fine, THE WRAPPER near-fine, with some creasing along spine, and some splash marks (tea? coffee?) to the lower panel. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, first printing. This copy signed by both the translator Julia Donaldson and the illustrator Axel Scheffler, with a doodle by Scheffler to the front free endpaper replicating the title vignette. Scarce with these attributes.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Fine
JACKET: Near Fine