Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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For the conditions of this first edition, please view our photographs. Note there is NO dust jacket. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-323 [324: blank], illustrations by Nicolas Bentley, original green cloth. A classic children’s fantasy novel. Written at the height of World War II, this tale of hilarity and magical adventures is also a work of high seriousness — after all, “life without freedom,” as the valiant golden puma makes clear, “is a poor, poor thing.” “Eric Linklater’s delightful fantasy belongs in that section of the bookshelf alongside ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE JUNGLE BOOK, and THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS because it shares the same quality of believable magic” (Saturday Review). Winner of the Library Association’s Carnegie Medal for the year’s best children’s book. Reginald 09086. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978).

In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighing, Dinah says, I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be, and her sister, Dorinda, adds helpfully, Very often, when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. Its difficult to tell which is which. Sure enough, the mischievous sisters soon convince a judge that minds must be changed as often as socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch’s potion that turns them into kangaroos), and in the company of a golden puma and silver falcon set off to rescue their father from the tyrant of Bombardy. A tale of hilarity and great adventure, The Wind on the Moon is also a work of high seriousness; after all, life without freedom, as the valiant puma makes clear, is a poor, poor thing.