I've got that hardback edition as well, colours and all, from back in the early eighties - the little library beside the school I went to had bought it especially for me when it first came out, as I told Atreyu-mun in this Milliways backroom post when asar_suti was first making friends with him, long before I took on Falkor. I only bought it later, so what I have isn't a first edition, but still. I'm planning to take it along for the seaside holidays that are coming up (which is why I'm sending Lajos off already, while Andras will get a spontaneous short-term job in, say, Sri Lanka, near the end of next week), and try and read it to the little lady. Which would be enormous harmonious peace-joy-and-pancakes type of fun. Which will hopefully get me over the time without any 111 part thread type of fun...