Woolley, LeonardMareMagnum
WODEHOUSE P. G.MareMagnum
William Tell told Again. With Illustrations in Colour by Philip Dadd described in Verse by John W. Houghton. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE
8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and 15 coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present),free endpapers lightly browned; pictorial tan cloth, uppere board blocked in green and yellow and lettered in black, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 2pp publishers' catalogue at end. The first issue, without publisher's address on title. One of the Master's earliest works, written in his 'school' period between The Gold Bat and The Head of Kay's, and long predating the hallowed fields of Wooster, Jeeves, Mulliner and Blandings. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Jasen 5; McIlvaine A5a.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB1 097,53 €
