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95pp. Yellow cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on face and also on sun faded spine. Top edge gilt. Printed at the Chiswick Press in a limited, numbered edition of 550 copies. This is copy #302 and is signed by the author on the limitation page. No.7 in the Furnival Books series, now with a new publisher. Frontispiece illustration by Rowland Hilder tipped in with another illustration on p95. Touch of shelf wear to tip of top and tail of spine and corners. Red & yellow headband. Light toning to end papers, title page margin and slight toning to fore edge. No inscriptions. Seller Inventory # 013704
Title: Little Peter The Great (Furnival Books No.7)
Publisher: Joiner & Steele Ltd (William Jackson (Books) Ltd), London
Publication Date: 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Rowland Hilder
Condition: Good++
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Hilder, Rowland, (Frontispiece) (illustrator). First Edition. No. 202 of 500 copies signed by author. Crosby Gaige's copy, with his bookplate. From an addendum affixed to the title page: "The Furnival Books are now published by Joiner & Steele, Ltd., London. The name 'William Jackson (Books) Ltd.' has been retained on the title-page in order that the set of twelve books may be typographically uniform". Frontispiece. One of a series of short stories. Seller Inventory # 298
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with tipped-in frontispiece and illustration in the text; original yellow buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 417). With printed slip announcing change of publisher affixed to title. Printed at the Chiswick Press. The frontispiece by Roland Hilder. Gretton, p.64; Matthews B1931b. Seller Inventory # 4886
Quantity: 1 available