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[email protected] Twitter: @blackwellrare blackwell.co.uk/rarebooks BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS 1. Jansson (Tove) Complete set of ten animal postcards. [Helsinki:] Taidekorttikeskus, 1941, each a single card with colour-printed illustration by Jansson to front. each 14 x 9cm, fine condition £400 Preceding the Moomin books that brought her fame, this is accomplished early work from the Finnish illustrator, completed for the ‘Art Card Centre’ in Helsinki. 2. Jansson (Tove, Illustrator) Litteratur - Konst - Teater 1946, Nr 4. Omslag och teckningar av Tove Jansson. Helsinki: Holger Schildts, 1946, FIRST EDITION, 9 monochrome drawings by Tove Jansson, pp. [ii], 215-80, 4to, original wrappers, Jansson illustration to front (not used elsewhere), near fine £325 An excellent copy of this periodical, notable for having Tove Jansson, then beginning to publish her Moomin books, as the sole illustrator, providing drawings to accompany both prose and poetry. 3. Jansson (Tove) Hur gick det sen? [Boken om Mymlan, Mumintrollet och lilla My]. [The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My.] Helsinki: Gebers, [1952,] FIRST EDITION, colour-printed illustrations by Jansson throughout, with cut-out apertures, pp. [28, including covers], 4to, original quarter natural linen and illustrated boards, with circular apertures to both covers (large and tiny respectively), a touch of rubbing, very good £650 A beautiful copy of the first Moomin picture-book. 4. Jansson (Tove) Trollvinter [Moominland Midwinter]. Helsinki: AWE, Gebers, 1957, FIRST EDITION, vignette to half-title, frontispiece map and illustrated throughout by the author, pp.