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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With publisher's compliment slip: 'Compliments of Geoffrey Handley-Taylor c/o National Liberal Club' loosely inserted to the fore. Colour frontispiece showing C. Day-Lewis - a reproduction of Lawrence Gowing's portrait of The Poet Laureate with a loose tissue-guard, plus ten black and white plates, with three plates showing the Poet Laureate's manuscript notebook, 'Hero and Saint' (two plates) and 'Harebells over Mannin Bay'. ***Near fine in dark blue boards with silver titles to spine and front board. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good navy-blue plain dustwrapper with gilt titles to spine and front panel of dustwrapper. One-inch closed tear and associated creasing to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. Small loss to head of tail of spine of dustwrapper. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners and tail of spine of dustwrapper. Front and rear panels of dustwrapper clean. Printed on quality cream laid paper. ***42 pages including index to rear plus one-page small unpaginated line illustration to rear. 234mm x 168 mm. ***Contents: Letter of Introduction by W. H. Auden; Acknowledgments; Bibliographical Note; 'Sunday afternoon', By C. Day-Lewis; Bibliography; A. Books and Pamphlets by C. Day-Lewis; B. Books and Pamphlets with Contributions by C. Day-Lewis; C. Detective Stories by C. Day-Lewis under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake; Index. ***First impression of the true first edition, complete in its original dustwrapper. **For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Hardback; 8vo; blue cloth boards; without d/w; prizer award inscription on fep (not author) ; colour frontis; nice clean copy; more unusual compilation of girls stories by quaity authors of the day; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

, unpaginated, 4 colour plates, black & white illustrations throughout, including stories such as 'Long Art' by Alice Massie, 'No Play To-day' by Kathleen W. Coales, 'Gipsy Magic' by Thora Stowell etc First Edition , covers scuffed at edges, repair to tear on spine head, light foxing to pages at edges, one illustration coloured in by owner, book in good condition , pictorial paper covered boards Quarto, 25 x 19 cm Hardback ISBN:

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First American Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original boards in dark blue gilt-lettered dust jacket; xii,40pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates, including photographs and facsimiles. Sunning to upper jacket panel and spine with jacket spine gilt rather dulled, light edge wear, minor bump to upper board, small sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.