Pippi Goes on Board

Description

LINDGREN, Astrid. Pippi Goes on Board. Translated by Florence Lamborn. Illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman. NY: The Viking Press [1957]. Yellow cloth pictorially stamped in red. 8 full-page b&w illustrations and illustrated chapter headings. Spine ends lightly rubbed, light damp-stain at top edge of rear endpapers, else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (top of spine panel a bit chipped with edge of title just a tad effected, faint two-inch crease above authors name on front panel, some wear to folds and edges).

First US edition. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning author Astrid Lindgrens second novel about the beloved Pippi Longstocking. Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She’s been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy and sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it’s like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi’s long lost father returns. Will she have to leave Villa Villekulla?