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Gallico Paul

The Snow Goose. Illustrations by Peter Scott. [First Illustrated Edition.] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Michael Joseph, 1946

264,50 €

Island Books

(Devon, Royaume-Uni)

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Détails

Année
1946
Auteur
Gallico Paul
Éditeurs
Michael Joseph
Thème
illustrated, modern first editions, modern firsts, paul gallico, peter scott, snow goose, dunkirk, elizabeth jane howard
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, with title and text in blue and black, coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations (3 full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers, neat contemporary signature on frontispiece recto; original pictorial blue buckram, snow goose motif blocked in white and black on upper board, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled, chipped (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip, and neatly reinforced on inner surface. FIRST APPEARANCE OF SCOTT'S CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. The frontispiece portrait of Fritha is modelled on Scott's first wife, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I stood for hours, holding a pillow, which he turned into the wounded snow goose' (Howard's memoirs). VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.