The Snowman by Raymond Briggs [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1978 • Random House

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1978] RANDOM HOUSE

Large vintage hardcover sans dust jacket in very good condition.   Boards have some splitting to corners [see last photo] but otherwise cover is very good; light discoloration.  Tightly bound cloth spine. 

 Reads good as new; clean white pages with no markings.  Beautiful copy!

Illustrated in full color, this is a wordless story. The pictures have "the hazy softness of air in snow." A little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.