The Exploits of Moominpappa

Jansson, Tove

ISBN 10: 0140303235 / ISBN 13: 9780140303230

Published by Penguin Books [Puffin], Harmondsworth, 1969

About this Item

1973. First Puffin edition of the third Moomin book. 135pp. Many full-page and in-text black and white illustrations by the author. The book is bound in the original card covers and is in very good condition with light shelf wear on the covers and a 5mm nick to the top of the front cover. The contents are secure and clean with age-browning around the edges of the pages. Previous owner's name to the top of the first page.

Seller Inventory # LitJansson02

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Exploits of Moominpappa
• Publisher: Penguin Books [Puffin], Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140303235
• ISBN 13: 9780140303230
• Binding: Softcovers
• Illustrator: Tove Jansson
• Edition: First Edition Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Children's

About this title

Synopsis

'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.'

Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.

About the Author

Tove Jansson was born in Finland in 1914. She began her career as a cartoonist and went on to write and illustrate many books for adults and children. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s, just for fun, and in 1945 he became a character in a children's story. Tove became world-famous for her Moomin books, which began with The Moomins and the Great Flood in 1945, closely followed by Comet in Moominland in 1946, Finn Family Moomintroll in 1948 and six more Moomin adventures. During the winter months Tove lived and worked in Helsinki, but in the summertime she stayed on a beautiful remote island in the Gulf of Finland with her long-term partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. Tove Jansson received many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She died in 2001, aged eighty-seven.