first edition
1950 · London
by Partridge, Eric
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950. First edition, 8vo, pp. 188; original blue cloth, spine sunned, the dust jacket not preserved. With a long presentation from the author to the publisher and bookseller Basil Blackwell dated 5 May, 1950, beginning: "When first I met you, late in 1923, you were an dauntingly efficient young publisher..." Partridge goes on to praise Blackwell, as both a bookseller and a publisher and presents "this imperfect yet I thihnk readable book with a kindly smile."
(Inventory #: 50973)