Of Mice and Men and Biggles

Michael Rothenstein’s illustration of Lennie Small and George Millon, the Californian migrant workers whose story is told in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, formed both the jacket illustration and the frontispiece (shown below) to the 1927, first UK edition.

In blue paper wrappers and sporting pink endpapers and stained top edge, a copy of that Heinemann …

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