Price: £55
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1946
Stock Number: 67247
Malet (Oriel)
Marjory Fleming.
Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 3 further monochrome plates, occasional spots to page-heads, pp. 171, crown 8vo, original green cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt, partially against a pink ground, gentle knock at head of lower joint, some light dustsoiling to cloth, a few spots to edges, rear endpapers foxed, good
Publication Details: Faber and Faber, 1946
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Edward and Myrtle, with very best wishes from Oriel Malet, 12th May, 1946'. A laid in postcard confirms the recipients as the Partridges, of Chillbrook Farm near Cobham. The author's third book – a biography, in the form of a novel, about the prodigious Scottish poet, who died at the age of eight in the early years of the nineteenth-century. Uncommon inscribed.
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