Jan Henry — Tiger&Apos;S Chance

London, William Heinemann, 1957. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition to a whimsical children's story following a girl's adventure into the jungle with a tiger, illustrated by Eloise illustrator Hillary Knight The scarce first edition of Tiger's Chance, a whimsical children's book, written by Jan Henry and illustrated by prolific American artist and children's author Hillary Knight. In the publisher's original orange cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains numerous in-text illutrations by Knight. A lovely dream-like story in which a young girl is taken on an adventure to the jungle by a magical tiger and her black cat, playing on the idea of children's imagination. Knight illustrated numerous children's books but was best known for his work on Kay Thompson's popular Eloise series written at the time of this work.   In the publisher's original orange cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with minimal marks and edgewear. Dust wrapper is generally bright and clean with slight browning to rear. Nicking to edges, mostly to head and tail of wrapper spine, and a small closed tear to top edge of front wrapper. A very small chip to bottom edge of front wrapper near tail of joint. End papers are bright and clean with a couple of minor marks and very faint browning to hinges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor browning marks to bottom of leaves pp.86-87, and to p.86. Near Fine . Ill.: Hillary Knight. Near Fine/Very Good.