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Kerr, Judith.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Publisher: Collins, London;
Date of Publication: 1968
Stock Code: 11883
First edition, first impression. Quarto, pp. 32. Colour illustrations throughout. Publisher’s original pictorial cloth. Covers lightly soiled, with a short 2 cm tear to upper joint. Endpapers lightly toned; scattered light foxing and a few minor finger-marks but no annotation or inscriptions. A very good copy overall. Both written and illustrated by Judith Kerr ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ is the story of Sophie’s tea-party and a tiger who arrives unannounced and proceeds to consume all the food and drink in the house. Inspired by the visits of the author to the zoo with her daughter and perhaps influenced by her childhood in Nazi Germany. The author’s first book and one of the best-selling children’s stories of all time.

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