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Decline and Fall.
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Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette.

Publication details: Chapman & Hall,1928,

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Bookseller Notes

A nice example of a scarce dustjacket, a charming design by the author - who also illustrates the text. That rare thing: a debut that is also a masterpiece; the story of Paul Pennyfeather, based on the author's own education and early career in the teaching profession. The printed dedication is to his Oxford contemporary, Harold Acton.

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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 further full-page line drawings by the author, occasional light spotting, largely restricted to margins, a couple of leaves with light crease at top corner, pp.xii, 288, crown 8vo, original patterned red and black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, this a touch faded and lightly rubbed at ends, light spotting to edges, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown, later gift inscription (including a faint thumb-print) to flyleaf, dustjacket designed by author with printed labels lettered in red to front and backstrip panels, fading to backstrip panel, a little rubbed, chipped and creased at extremities, very good

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