A Wrinkle in Time. by L'ENGLE, Madeleine - 1963

London: Constable Young Books Ltd,, 1963. A very good copy First UK edition, first impression, of the first instalment in the Time Quintet. A Wrinkle in Time is an important and classic children's fantasy novel. It won numerous awards, including the 1963 Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, as well as being a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Having sold more than ten million copies worldwide, L'Engle's novel has also seen several adaptations, including a film, a play, an opera, and a graphic novel. A Wrinkle in Time is particularly notable as a sci-fi novel with a female author and a female protagonist, and although originally marketed at young female readers it has proven to have a much broader crossover appeal. Octavo. Original red and black patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Antony Maitland. Bookseller's ticket of Hall's Book Store in Melbourne and Prahran on front pastedown; neat ownership inscription of R. J. Lane on front free endpaper, dated 1964. Spine ends gently bumped, some abrasion and glue residue to pastedowns, faint partial toning to free endpapers. A very good copy indeed, in near-fine dust jacket, price-clipped, a trifle creased at extremities, minor soiling.