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Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 87 of 600 copies signed and numbered by the author. Of these, 200 were offered for sale in the United Kingdom and the rest exported to the United States. The UK trade issue appeared five days later on 29 April in a run of 2,000 copies, and the same number of copies were printed for the US trade issue in September. Gallup A15a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, titles to front board within quatrefoil gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With original glassine dust jacket and brown card slipcase. Minor bumps to upper corners, endpapers toned; with the scarce glassine jacket, this example notably preserving the original paper flaps, and together with the original slipcase sometime repaired with tape to spine: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom