"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
My Talks With Dean Spanley.
London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vi; 137 [1]. With a halftone frontispiece illustration by S.H. Sime. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Heinemann imprint in blind to lower board. Green endpapers. Gentle spotting to first few leaves, page margins, and textblock edges. Sunning to endpapers. Ownership inscription in black ink to front flyleaf. A few very discreet marks to boards, spine lightly sunned. Mild edgewear. Very good. An amusing quasi-fantasy wherein the narrator gets his older acquaintance drunk and he begins to recount his past life as a spaniel. Inspiration for the film 'Dean Spanley' starring Sam Neill and Peter O'Toole. Item #73394
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