The Box of Delights. Or When the Wolves were Running

Masefield, John (Christmas/ fantasy)

Published by MacMillan Company, New York, 1935

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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.

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Title
The Box of Delights. Or When the Wolves were Running
Author
Masefield, John (Christmas/ fantasy)
Publisher
MacMillan Company, New York
Publication year
1935
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Binding
Hardcover
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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."
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