Price: US$103.33 + shipping
Description: See Sheila Markhams interview with Thorps grandson Jim in The Bookdealer, April 1995, and the report Now its the end of the Thomas Thorp story, Surrey Live, 17 January 2003. 132pp, 8vo. Stapled. Pagination includes grey printed wraps, with title and first and last entries. On cheap discoloured paper, with slight wear to bottom corner of first few leaves; spine worn and chipped, covers detached. Undated, but with no item found dated later than 1929. Fifty-one pages (33-83) of bookplates in small print. Expensive items include: Durandus, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum (1470), £90; Empsons Narratives (1836), £36; Evelyns diary (1818 ed.), £35; a presentation copy of Conrads Lord Jim, £8. Also Graves Good-Bye to All That (1929), FIRST ISSUE OF FIRST EDITION, with the Sassoon References which were deleted in later copies, £8 (Only a few copies of the first edition were published before references were deleted, and these have become very much sought after.).
Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United Kingdom