under cherry tree von peter traill (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Faber edition on black cloth + dedication to end paper.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Aubrey Hammond (illustrator). First edition. The scarce first edition of this charming novel from Peter Traill, the pseudonym of author Guy Mainwaring Morton. The scarce first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further illustrations by Aubrey Hammond.Guy Mainwaring Morton was a barrister and writer who wrote a number of crime novels, including 'The 3-7-9 Murder' and 'Mystery at Hardacres'.The follows a young boy who encounters a magical cherry tree.It was reviewed in The Spectator as having 'an Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley touch'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards vibrant. Fading to back strip, and to head and tail of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.