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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 488 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

One of 200 copies on Abbey Mills laid paper. [vi], 88, [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A personal anthology of prose and verse selections prepared by antiquarian bookseller and crime novelist George Sims (1923-1999) and printed for him by his old friend Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press in Edinburgh. This copy one of a handful from the library of George Sims, with his bookplate. On the front endleaves, half-title, and colophon Sims has written out additional poems not in this anthology, by Olive Heseltine, Charlotte Mew, Robert Bridges, Shakespeare, and Logan Pearsall Smith. A beautifully produced, sombre volume. Halliwell B62 (note). Provenance: George Sims; David Holmes Original black cloth. Bookplate of George Sims. About fine [vi], 88, [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. 8vo One of 200 copies on Abbey Mills laid paper.