Price: £40
Subject: Modern Illustrated
Published Date: 1936
Stock Number: 70350
Lancaster (Osbert)
Progress at Pelvis Bay.
Description: FIRST EDITION, illustrations by the author throughout, some faint foxing, pp. vi, 68, crown 8vo, original quarter red cloth with illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in black with lean to spine, bookseller ticket at foot of front pastedown, ownership inscription to flyleaf (see below) and a couple of spots to rear endpapers, dustjacket with overall Lancaster design, the backstrip panel browned, very good
Publication Details: John Murray, 1936
Notes: A charming account of an imaginary English seaside town. This copy's original owner was Edward Crossley Thompson - then at New College, Oxford; he was later a fellow of Jesus College and worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park.
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