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London: Methuen, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 126. With in-text illustrations by Somerville. In publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and blue dog motif to upper board. With original orange pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to jacket edges; one particularly large chip from front cover bottom edge. Good overall..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. FIRST EDITION. Foolscap Quarto (22x18cm). pp. x, 132. With 4 full-page illustrated plates including frontispiece, and 17 further in-text illustrations by the author, Edith Somerville. In publisher's mauve cloth with gilt titles to white cloth label on spine. With original orange and white dust jacket..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1925. [Irish Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.312 [8]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers, with an impression from a heavy pencil ownership to front fly-leaf, rubbed out. Spine sunned to grey, with some light..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Short Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and endpapers. Jacket with chips and closed..... More