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First US edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed in the month of publication by the author on the first blank "Ann Catherine Winter, best wishes from C. S. Forester, 22 August 1942". Poo-Poo and the Dragons was Forester's first children's book, first published in Britain the same year. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and illustration to spine and front, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Full page and vignette illustrations throughout by Lawson. Spine faded, some marks to cloth, trivial rubbing to corners, internally sound and clean, a very good copy in the jacket that is rubbed at the extremities, with one closed tear to top corner of front panel, and the rear panel spotted.

In 'Poo-Poo and the Dragons,' C.S. Forester deviates from his usual genre of naval and military fiction to craft a charming story for children. The book tells of a father who, in trying to entertain his sick son, spins a fantastical tale of Poo-Poo and his adventures with dragons.