The Box of Delights. Or When the Wolves were Running
Published by MacMillan Company, New York, 1935
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books
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Condition: Used
US$ 1,200.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Splendidly bound in crisp clean turquoise cloth stamped in red. A sharp copy with lovely endpapers. Very clean and tight throughout. In a handsome dust jacket with some light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends.The price of $2.50 is present on the front inside flap, though the top corner has been clipped. A collector's copy. First US edition. The MacMillan Company, 1935. With published 1935 on the copyright page.
Seller Inventory # 1823
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Box of Delights. Or When the Wolves were Running
- Author
- Masefield, John (Christmas/ fantasy)
- Publisher
- MacMillan Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1935
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Rare in jacket First edition of the author's influential fantasy novel. "Long before Harry Potter, The Box of Delights remade children's fantasy). In The Telegraph in 2020 a headline stated "You'd never have J. K. Rowling without John Masefield."
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books
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