Graphic novelist Posy Simmonds names Kathleen Hale’s books as important to her. A glimpse at the gorgeous layout of Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Camping Holiday shows the influence.

London & New York: Country Life and Transatlantic Arts, 1948. Third printing of the 1938 first edition. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. 31 pages. Folio. Hardcover. Beautiful colour lithographed illustrations throughout. Near fine in slightly chipped with a small loss a bottom, very good unclipped dust jacket. Rare signed.