The King of the Copper Mountains

First English edition. Originally published in Dutch as ‘Het sleutelkruid’. English version by Gillian Hume and Paul Biegel. Illustrations by Babs van Wely. Jacket drawing by Barry Rowe. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt to spine and front board. Dust jacket sunned to spine and rubbed to edges and folds. *** Paul Biegel’s fourth book and the first to be translated into English; a classic work by one of the most successful and prolific Dutch writers of children’s literature.