1939 The Story of Don Vincente
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Description
Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed
Presentation copy from the publisher, Viscount Carlow, George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, inscribed by him to the recto to the front endpaper and limitation page to Cecil Vivian Cassels, 'Aunt Viva'.
Published by the Corvinus Press, founded by Carlow in 1936. Corvinus published new works by James Joyce, Stefan Zweig, H. E. Bates, Walter de la Mare, T. E. Lawrence, and more. The Press closed in 1945 after Carlow was filled in an airplane crash the previous year.
A limited edition, limited to sixty copies, printed to be given as presents by Lord Carlow to his friends at Christmas.
An entertaining yet ominous short story by Holbrook Jackson, about a bookseller who builds his library by murdering his customers and stealing their books.
Holbrook Jackson was one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.
Condition
In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with patterned paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Publisher's inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Near Fine
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