Hardback with dust jacket. First edition, 1958. Publisher's original black boards, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners. Previous owner's names and date written neatly in ink at the top edge of the front endpaper. Red endpapers. A very good condition copy in a just about good dust jacket. The dust jacket is worn and torn at the edges, with several small brown stains. Minor loss to the spine ends of the jacket and chips to the corners and edges. Front flap not price clipped. pp. 111. 25cm tall. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sleeve. This does not... View More...
A specially bound bespoke copy of the first UK edition (was published the preceding year in the USA). Bound in blue calf leather with calf onlays portraying a comic-style face and head in profile. Light rubs to the edges. Inscribed by the author to [I believe] Helene Knobel, dated 1937, underneath a cut out of the portrait image from the front cover of the original dust jacket, on a free front endpaper. Ex-Libris bookplate printed Knobel, Member of the National Book League, on the front pastedown. Knobel signed on another front free endpaper. The binding is nice and firm; however there is exte... View More...
