Light green cloth with dark green leaf design. Dust jacket
1955 · London
by Bowen, Elizabeth [1899 - 1973]
London: Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, 1955. 1st thus (cf. Sellery & Harris A22b). Light green cloth with dark green leaf design. Dust jacket. VG+/VG (spine panel sunned somewhat).. 224 pp. 8vo.
This edition the Book Society version that varies slightly from that noted by Sellery & Harris: the t.p. imprint notes the Book Society in addition to Cape, as well as the publication blurb- "This edition issued on First Publication by the Book Society Ltd., in Association with Jonathan Cape Ltd. March 1955." The dust jacket differs slightly also, with the Book Society frame in pink vice the black noted by S & H. Sellery & Harris, while aware of this BS version, had not seen a copy. (Inventory #: 20525)
This edition the Book Society version that varies slightly from that noted by Sellery & Harris: the t.p. imprint notes the Book Society in addition to Cape, as well as the publication blurb- "This edition issued on First Publication by the Book Society Ltd., in Association with Jonathan Cape Ltd. March 1955." The dust jacket differs slightly also, with the Book Society frame in pink vice the black noted by S & H. Sellery & Harris, while aware of this BS version, had not seen a copy. (Inventory #: 20525)
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