Orlando the Marmalade Cat - a Camping Holiday
Country Life, 1938.
First edition. Folio. Paper boards illustrated in colour by Hale. In matching pictorial dustwrapper. Written and illustrated by Hale. Patterned endpapers, colour illustrated title page, frontis and 30 pages of text and brightly coloured illustrations. A very good copy indeed, a little bumped to the extremities, in a good only dustwrapper, with large chips to spine ends and wear to edges, and a couple lengthy closed tears neatly repaired.
Author's scarce first book.
Like so many successful children's stories, Orlando, the marmalade cat, was devised as bedtime entertainment for the author's own children. The books were an immediate hit with chlldren, their humour and large size appealing to their young imaginations. The colour of Hale's drawings reproduced wonderfully as large lithographs and make a lasting impression.
Stock ID: 46908
