The Dancing Bear by Peter Dickinson / David Smee (Illust.) - 1972

London: Victor Gollancz, 1972 VG/VG. 8vo. original grey cloth (ex-school library with label, occ. rsms etc. to outer leaves, else very clean & bright) in dustwrapper (spine sunned); pp. 240 (last blank), with map & illustrations. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG. Illus. by David Smee.

London: V. Gollancz, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition, Assumed 1st printing, 1972. No other printings listed. Original price £1.50 net at bottom of dust jacket corner. 237 pp. 8vo. No other price listed. Unclipped corners. Panels are in excellent conditions. Light spine end bends due to shelf resting. Spine lean. None of these minor flaws are easily observed: one edge indent, minute wear on one corner, and one white back cover bottom dot. Tight pages, appears unread. Clean. Dust jacket has a few tiny spine head lines/wrinkles. Jacket inside has bottom wavy discoloration line and small area of tanning. A couple of fore edge flap fold color coating chips. Synopsis: Set in the sixth century of the Byzantine Empire, the daughter of a great lord is captured by Huns. The lord's slave Sylvester, the slave's bear Bubba,, and a dirty old saint head off is pursuit of the girl. One adventure after… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1972. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 5.25 x 8 inches (13.5 x 20.5 cm). Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Spine a little faded and has slight creasing to ends, unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Slight bumping to lower corners, light foxing to page edges and endpapers, very clean text throughout. From the private library of Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. Inscribed to Richard Adams, on front free endpaper, with an original poem by Peter Dickinson: 'For Richard Adams, These things are only meteors born to die. But for the moment, at that mimic sky, which, God like, we create, you and I. Even the uninstructed child can stare and see, like real constellations, where your Great Bear glitted by my Lesser Bear. Peter Dickinson 23 iv 76'. After the inscription Dickinson has added a pencilled note: '(Let's not tell Michael Bond; I don't feel like re-writing Goldilocks.)' followed by his… Read More