Derby Day: A Comic Opera in Three Acts (First Edition with Unique Author ALS Letter & Custom Bookplate)
Language: English
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1931
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Cranston & Perry, Ascot, Berkshire, United KingdomCranston & Perry
AbeBooks seller since April 16, 2026
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 79.99
Quantity: 1 available
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First Edition. First Published. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original striking blue cloth with black title lettering to the front board and spine. Octavo. 126pp. A brilliant example of interwar British theatrical history, containing the complete libretto for Herbert's celebrated comic opera. This copy does not retain its original dust jacket. Exceptional Association Provenance: This copy originates directly from the personal library of the Vorticist painter Edward Wadsworth and his wife Fanny. The front pastedown features the highly distinct, decorative custom Celtic-knot woodcut bookplate of their daughter, Barbara Wadsworth ("Ex Libris Barbara Wadsworth"). Tucked loosely inside the volume is an intimate, two-sided Autograph Letter Signed (Gwen) written in fountain pen on the family's official embossed stationery from 12 Hammersmith Terrace, W.6. An original two-page handwritten personal letter from Gwen Herbert, wife of the celebrated British author, playwright and politician A. P. Herbert, addressed to Fanny Wadsworth. Condition: Good vintage condition overall. The original blue cloth boards show typical light age-related surface marking, minor spine sunning, and light bumping to the extremities. The text block is internally clean, bright, and firmly bound. The loose autograph letter is in excellent condition with crisp folds and perfectly legible handwriting. The custom bookplate is beautifully preserved and clean.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Derby Day: A Comic Opera in Three Acts (First Edition with Unique Author ALS Letter & Custom Bookplate)
- Author
- A. P. Herbert
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1931
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Dimensions
- 13 centimeters width by 19 centimeters height by 2 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- 20th Century Literature, First Editions, First published, Social History, Vintage
Cranston & Perry
Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since April 16, 2026
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Step into the world of Cranston & Perry, where every shelf holds a little history and every book has a story beyond the one printed on its pages. We seek out books with character, from time-worn editions with foxed pages, beautiful bindings and forgotten inscriptions, to collectable children’s books, literary classics, unusual finds and modern voices worth rediscovering. Some are rare. Some are wonderfully ordinary. Some have travelled through generations before reaching us. What matters is that each deserves to find the right reader and a new place on the shelf. Part antiquarian bookseller, part treasure hunter and entirely devoted to books, Cranston & Perry celebrates literature in all its forms: beautiful, rebellious, curious, scholarly, nostalgic and occasionally rather strange. Every book has a past. Every reader begins another chapter. We simply bring the two together.…
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