Lester Everson (2 results)

Condition: Good. Signed by Author with a dedication. Boards have some wear/fading. Content has light toning with a little foxing. No DJ.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed copy of the very scarce first edition of this charming and entertaining novel about the adventures of the clergy. Flat signed by the author to the tail of the final leaf.A very scarce first edition.The only published work of Lester Everson, the pen-name of Harold Mary Porter.A charming and entertaining novel, subtitled 'A Story for Bishops and Curates and all Congregations Committed to Their Charge', and involving troublesome children, and both heroic and dastardly members of the clergy.Inscribed A. Lyons 1984 to the front pastedown, and J Parker 1917 to the front free endpaper, with further pencil notations offering references to ecclesiastical matters to the front and rear pastedown and free endpaper.With further humorous pencil annotations throughout, such as a note to the contents leaf reading 'an impressively silly chapter', and another reading 'all bishops have revolvers.'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Extensive former owner's pencil and ink inscriptions to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of marginal pencil inscriptions. Signed by author to tail of final leaf. Very Good. signed by author. book.