First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Map endpapers. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Jules Feiffer. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the head of the spine with a little fading. The contents, with a previous owner's name to the front pastedown and a few small, shallow indentations to the closed text block fore-edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has has several short closed tears at the edges, with a few unobtrusive tape repairs to the underside. Not price-clipped (15s on the front flap).
A fantastical children's literary classic which formed the basis for a 1970 Chuck Jones produced film of the same name, as well as opera and musical theatre adaptations. Illustrated by the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer who shared a house with Juster while he was writing 'The Phantom Tollbooth'.
Stock code: 26094
£475
London: Collins.
1962