Esio Trot by Roald Dahl [U.K. FIRST EDITION] • 1990 • Jonathan Cape

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake

U.K. FIRST EDITION • SECOND PRINTING [1990] JONATHAN CAPE

True UK 1st published in the U.K. by Jonathan Cape [London.]  2nd Printing / 1990.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Light shelf wear to dust jacket; now housed in a new HQ archival quality jacket protector.  Price clipped on front panel.

Book itself is excellent.  Beautiful clean blue cloth boards.  Reads as new with light tanning to pages.

Illustrated by Quentin Blake  Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy is too shy to approach Mrs. Silver, until one day he comes up with a brilliant idea to win her heart. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. But it's going to take one hundred and forty tortoises, an ancient spell, and a little bit of magic. - Bookshop Apocalypse