1937 Tom Dick and Harriet

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression of the work. 

With numerous lovely, monochrome vignette illustrations by the British painter, printmaker, war artist, and illustrator Edward Ardizzone. Ardizzone was posted overseas as an official war time artist and completed nearly 400 sketches and watercolours of the Second World War, most of which are now held in the Imperial War Museum. 

With a newspaper clipping of an article by the Times dated 1970 on Edward Ardizzone in honour of his 70th birthday inserted loosely at the front of the work. 

With the original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. 

Tom Dick and Harriet is a delightful collection of literary sketches pertaining to a miscellany of charming characters. A handful of the work's central characters form a consistent thread, reuniting from time-to-time in an unnamed London pub.