Little Innocents. Childhood Reminiscences. With a preface by Alan Pryce-Jones and a dust wrapper designed by Rex Whistler.
1932ARC95095Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. London 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. A presentation copy inscribed by one of the contributors: "For Auntie with love from James Laver. Xmas 1932". 8vo. 124pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth darkened at the backstrip and margins of the upper and lower boards and with just a touch of light wear to several extremities. Some very light toning to the free endpapers and the half-title and one unprinted concluding leaf somewhat more toned. A very good copy in a splendidly preserved example of the uncommon pictorial dust wrapper designed by Rex Whistler non-price-clipped and just lightly spotted at the rear panel with a touch of toning to the spine panel. Contributors include John Betjeman Lord Berners Harold Nicolson Dorothy Wellesley Lord Alfred Douglas Edmund Blunden James Laver Sylvia Pankhurst H.J.Massingham Rose Macaulay Robert Byron Nina Hamnett J.B.Morton Evelyn Waugh V.Sackville-West E.M.Delafield Raymond Mortimer J.C.Squire and twelve others. James Laver contributes a five-page reminiscence of the two-year period he and his sister lived with their maternal grandmother following the death of their mother although whether his familial presentation inscription enhances the value is perhaps open to debate. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., London Hardcover
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