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L'Engle, Madeleine.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2015
Stock Code: 15264
First edition with these illustrations, after the first of 1962. Octavo pp., xvii, 172. Frontispiece and 6 full-colour plates by Sam Richwood. Publisher’s dark blue cloth; titles blocked in turquoise to spine; turquoise and cream illustration to upper board; in the original blue slipcase. The slightest of shelf-wear to corners; binding otherwise strong and square; the cloth bright. Internally clean and free of annotations or inscriptions. A near-fine copy. Newly introduced by Meg Rosoff and with Retro-Futurist illustrations by Sam Richwood, this first Folio Society edition is an excellently produced edition of L’Engle’s pioneering work of female-led science-fantasy. The story follows the interplanetary travels of a young girl, Meg, who seeks out her lost father on an alien world. £100.00