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London: Heinemann, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback: dj (price unclipped), a little worn on edges and some light creasing, flaps lightly foxed, illustrated in b/w by the author, endpapers and foredges also lightly foxed, else vg. 8vo, 88pp. A very enjoyable cycle of poems about the eccentric inhabitants of Old Merlaine.

Heinemann, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cara Lockhart Smith. With unclipped dust jacket, no inscription very clean throughout. Poems written and illustrated by the author about Old Merlaine, a strange country. A land of woods and marshes surrounded by the sea. It is a land of mystery madness and magic. Here King Whirligig lives with his dotty Queen in a derelict castle, while the ferocious Beaky Masher lurks in the woods, and the huge stupid monster of Old Merlaine is forever stalked by Monster Hunters in black top hats. Reduced postal charges apply.

UK: William Heinemann Ltd. Old Merlaine and its eccentric inhabitants are described in poems and drawings that are mostly very funny and sometimes hauntingly sad. The boards have bumps to the corners, and the D/W has signs of shelf wear to the top and spine, and there is a mark in ink on the back. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975.