A Village in a Valley. With illustrations and a dust wrapper design by Rex Whistler. (SIGNED)

Language: English

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1934

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First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 287pp. Blue cloth lettered in pink at the spine and upper board. With Whistler-designed initials to the endpapers, a frontispiece, title page decoration, three plates and three further Whistler drawings in the text. The backstrip cloth very slightly discoloured, and with some spotting to the fore edge, endpapers, and to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy in the colour Whistler dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but lightly toned and spotted with several tiny fractions of edge-loss. The third of the author's trilogy of books chronicling the difficulties and delights of maintaining his Tudor thatched cottage in Glatton, Cambridgeshire, preceded by 'Down the Garden Path' and 'A Thatched Roof'.

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Title
A Village in a Valley. With illustrations and a dust wrapper design by Rex Whistler. (SIGNED)
Author
BEVERLY NICHOLS. Rex Whistler.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape, London
Publication year
1934
Condition
Very good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Rex Whistler.
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing

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