Red Tapeworm Inscribed by Compton Mackenzie (1 results)
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Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1955
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United KingdomLazarus Books Limited
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1955 first edition, third impression. Inscribed by Author. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 311 pages. Red hard cover with red title and publisher's name on white panels on the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends a little r…ubbed, end-papers with offsetting, pages are a bit toned otherwise clean throughout. Dust jacket condition good plus, 1.5x1.5 cm triangular tear to top edge of front panel, with loss of half the A and all of the P, E, and W in tapeworm of the title and the ac in Mackenzie. 0.5cm chip with loss at lower spine end, spine a little sunned, nicks and tears to edges, tiny part of the face of the illustration on the front panel is rubbed away, not price clipped, price 10s. 6d. net. Inscribed by Compton Mackenzie on the front end-paper "For Brenda with Best Wishes from Compton Mackenzie" A humorous novel on the economic measures imposed by the government during World War 2. Dust jacket illustration by Nicolas Bentley. Nicolas Bentley (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).
