DET VAR EN GÅNG: Nio Syskons Ävenlyr På Landet.

First edition, first printing. Swedish language. Original softcover with a colour illustration on the front panel. Pages uncut. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Tove Jansson. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the covers ever so a lightly rubbed and creased at the extremities. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Scarce.

A memoir of the Finnish-Swedish author Elsa von Born's countryside childhood. A lovely early example of illustrative work by Tove Jansson, published in the same year and by the same publisher as her first 'Moomin' book, 'SMÅTROLLEN OCH DEN STORA ÖVERSVÄMNINGEN' (The Moomins and the Great Flood).