"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
Spirit Lake.
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1961. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.957 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge red. Blue ink Christmas gift inscription from Attlee's daughter Janet (1923-2019) to fly-leaf: 'Mummy & Daddy | with love from | Janet & Shippy | Xmas 1961.' Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to edges. Quite heavy rubbing and a few marks to cloth. Spine sunned to grey with some loss of gilt. Good. A novel about the Spirit Lake Massacre of 1857. Item #56758
From the library of Clement Attlee (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951), and his wife Violet. .
Price: £120.00
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