THE REAL PLATO JONES

First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. In dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents, which are just slightly toned to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and free of previous owners' inscriptions and stamps. In the near fine dustwrapper, which has the slightest rubbing to the spine tips. Not price-clipped (£8.99 to the lower front flap).

A superb association copy inscribed by the author to the poet Mairi Macinnes and her literary critic husband John McCormick in blue ink on the title page, reading "For Mairi & John / from / Nina". This title from the beloved and prolific author of the award winning children's novels Carrie's War and The Peppermint Pig is the second Bawden novel to feature Plato Jones, who first appeared in The Outside Child.