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RICHARDS, J.M., RAVILIOUS, Eric
Price: £2,250.00
London, Country Life, Printed at the Curwen Press 1938, First Edition, First Impression. 8vo. Original lithographic boards printed in brown, blue and black. 24 full page colour lithographs by Ravilious. Neat ink inscription to flyleaf, some minor chipping to head of spine, rubbed to extremities of backstrip, otherwise a most presentable example of one of the most famous illustrated books of the century. Ravilious was both Captain in the Royal Marines and an official war artist when he was killed in action, aged 39, during a air-sea rescue in Iceland, September 1942. (Item ID: 33660)
