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ROSS, Adelaide Phillpotts (1896-1993).

Crawley: Rigby and Lewis, 1991. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION WITH TYPESCRIPT POETRY. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[14]; 291; [7]. With a typescript of 'Random Rhymes' inscribed by the author in blue ink, dated 1979. 11 sheets, stapled, and folded in half. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cream dust-jacket with blue titles to spine and front cover. A photograph of the author to the back cover. A fine copy; some browning along the fold in the poems. Item #50164

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