£500
Children's Book. Blyton (Enid) & Evans (Treyer, illustrated), The Christmas Book, signed by the author and with related ALS, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1944, b/w frontispiece and in-text illustrations, half-title inscribed by the author: G.H. Gray/Best wishes from/Enid Blyton, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket over green cloth gilt, slight wear, top edge stained a yuletide green, pictorial endpapers, 8vo, enclosing a loosely-inserted autograph letter signed by the author, manuscript on Green Hedges writing-paper, dated December 13. 44, thanking Gray for the copies of their poems, and for their letter which, judging by Blyton's reply, presumably was in praise of this book, before signing off Yours sincerely/Enid Blyton, EB wishes the boy or a girl: a very happy Christmas, (2)
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