Portrait of Barrie
Asquith, Cynthia
| Publication Date |
1954 |
| Publisher |
James Barrie |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy in chipped and torn dust jacket |
| SKU |
23202 |
| Notes |
Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean but bumped to corners. Dust is worn with small to medium size tears and chips and larger areas of loss to spine ends and corners. |
Description
Hardback. First edition. Biography of the playwright, novelist and creator of Peter Pan, written by his secretary Lady Cynthia Asquith (daughter-in-law of H. H. Asquith the former British Prime Minister). Letter from Cynthia Asquith to the original owner of book is enclosed - on headed notepaper with full signature. The original owner then bequeathed the book to a library, there are stamps in both the front and back and the original owner’s dated name to the front endpaper. Black and white frontis. and six further plates.
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