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Published by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1949
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kiddell-Monroe, Joan (illustrator). First Edition. First UK edition from 1949. Originally published in the US by Macmillan in 1930. The UK edition is illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe whereas the US edition had illustrations by Lynd Ward. boards have a little surface marking and rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine. There is a gift message to the original owner in ink on the reverse of the front free endpaper and a small Times Bookshop stamp at the bottom of the rear pastedown. The pages are slightly browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket is part glassene and part paper - the flaps are made of paper and the front and rear panels and spine are glassene. The front panel has a blueish colouring with the outline of the illustration on the front panel of the boards left clear and the spine and rear panels are clear. The flaps are a little browned at the tops where the laminate is peeling slightly and the front flap is price-clipped. The front panel of the jacket has a three inch by two inch triangular piece missing at the bottom and there is a one inch closed tear to the top edge with some associated creasing. The rear panel has a one and a half inch piece missing from the bottom edge with a crease running up from this and a one inch piece missing from the top right corner. First printing.