Buy this book on-line DAVID GARNETT : The Sailor's Return. With a frontispiece by Ray Garnett (the author's first wife). (INSCRIBED)Chatto & Windus, London, 1925
First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. 163pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Patterned cloth with a paper spine label (and a spare tipped-in at the rear, as required). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A sliver of discolouration to the backstrip ends and to the board edges. Free endpapers spotted with some further quite light spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional margins. A small bump to the base of the upper board. Very good in non-price-clipped dust wrapper which reproduces the Ray Garnett frontispiece, toned at the spine panel and with just a tiny trace of wear to the head and base of the spine panel. The author's fourth novel (the third published under his real name), set in Victorian Dorset (Garnett took the name of the book from the inn at Chaldon Herring, where he stayed whilst visiting T.F.Powys and Sylvia Townsend Warner).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of DAVID GARNETT : The Sailor's Return. With a frontispiece by Ray Garnett (the author's first wife). (INSCRIBED). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, antiquarian books, livres rares, rare books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |