Dingleflop Moon

First edition, first printing. 140pp plus four colour plate illustrations and six monochrome plates. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and motif (boards faded at extreme edges and a little rounded on corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a couple of mild marks on endpapers. In its original illustrated, now price-clipped, dust jacket (rubbed and lightly chipped at edges with minor loss at spine tips, worn, and a little dulled). Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the jacket or the volume. An enchanting story relaying the further adventures (first related in Dingleflop Chimes) of David and Karen with Father Time accompanied by Emily, the rag doll, and Goliath, the monkey. Jean Heap Walmsley was the co-founder of Pendelfin pottery. The pottery, initially started with her friend, Jeannie Todd, to make stoneware models as gifts for friends oand family, became a worldwide concern with a global fan club. The models and figures they produced built upon the rich local folklore of Pendel Hill near Burnley. Jean Heap’s children’s books also built upon these stories. Her Dingleflop stories remain appealing, and evocative, but are now very hard to find.