Peter Ibbetson, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. Preface by Daphne Du Maurier. 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt spine lettering and tan paper over boards, slipcase with paper spine label. xiii, 344pp. Frontispiece, numerous line drawings, decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Superlative copy of the eleventh title in the LEC's 31st series, first published in 1891 and Du Maurier's first novel, mildly successful. Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1600 numbered copies (this #241). Laid in is the appropriate LEC "Monthly Letter." NEWMAN 350.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Large octavo, 2 volumes. Grey cloth, stamped in brown and black, indicating the first state binding. A good set only, bright and clean internally, but with wear to the corners and spine ends. Inner hinges tender, but intact, save for a partial crack at the rear hinge in volume I. 1940 gift inscription on the front free endpaper of volume I. This copy SIGNED by George du Maurier on the half-title of volume I, and especially uncommon thus; he died four years after publication, and the only copies we've seen offered for sale described as "signed" were in fact unsigned copies with laid-in signatures. As such, while wanting in terms of external condition, a set to be prized for its autograph. A century-old bookseller's description is laid-in, and while it appears to describe this very set, a later owner certainly neglected it, which accounts for the difference in condition, and someone at some point absconded with the "cloth folding case.".