The collection was first displayed in The Moomins exhibition at Tampere Art Museum along with other original sketches and book illustrations by Jansson. The collection comprised over 1000 drawings and paintings and 38 three-dimensional tableaux. In 1986 Tove Jansson and her life-partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, donated a huge collection of Moomins-related artwork to Tampere Art Museum, Finland. An incredibly rare item of Moomins memorabilia. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Provenance:Presented by Tove Jansson to Stig Johan Axel Blommert-Ahlgren (1910-1996), Swedish author, editor, translator and critic collection of Tor Morisse (1947-2017), Norwegian children's book author and illustrator who lived in Sweden for most of his life. A fine and rare presentation copy of Moomin creator Tove Jansson's exquisitely illustrated Alice In Wonderland. Inscribed by Tove Jansson in black ink on the front endpaper with a fine original drawing of Alice holding a flower 'Till Stig Ahlgren / av en beundrarinna - illustratören -66' 66]. Complete with the very good, rubbed, nicked and marked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears at the edges and a small chip at the middle of the upper panel. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. Illustrated throughout by Tove Jansson with colour and black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt design to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Inscribed by Tove Jansson, who adds an original drawing for the highly influential Swedish author and critic Stig Ahlgren.

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