My Family And Other Animals

by Gerald Durrell

Hardback with dust jacket in very good condition. This edition published 1961. 

This book is a much-loved classic and tells of the five years that a young Gerald Durrell and his family, spent on the Greek Island of Corfu. It's a tale of a quirky and eccentric family and Gerald's burgeoning love of wildlife. It's funny and warm and their lives in Corfu sound both odd and idyllic. 

Also - what a beautiful old dust jacket designed by Ralph Thompson (1913 - 2009) , an artist and illustrator who specialised in animal subjects.