Grave Example by Barnaby Dogbolt,
signed first edition
by [SILVETTE Herbert]
London: William Heinemann, 1953. . 8vo, black cloth, remainder dust jacket with wedge missing at front top (approx. 1 x 2 1/2 inches) and 1/4 inch lacking at top of spine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To | Peggy Delauney | with best wishes | Herbert Silvette | (ex-Barnaby Dogbolt) | [?] Low Gear | 16 April 1963". Silvette got his B.S. and medical degrees at the University of Virginia; he was a collector, student and translator of the great Elizabethan, Philemon Holland. First English edition (Inventory #: 985)