Item #130703 Mr Chambers and Persephone. A Tale. Golden Cockerel Press, Christopher WHITFIELD.
Mr Chambers and Persephone. A Tale ...
Mr Chambers and Persephone. A Tale ...
Mr Chambers and Persephone. A Tale ...

Mr Chambers and Persephone. A Tale ...

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.

Small quarto, 63 pages, printed on Arnold's hand-made paper, with 5 wood-engraved illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

Quarter morocco and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; top edge gilt, others uncut; a few trifling light marks to the covers; endpapers a little tanned; faint offsetting from the illustrations; a near-fine copy with the original glassine dustwrapper (chipped and creased).

Number 8 of 150 copies signed by the author; an unsigned, unlimited edition was also produced. 'When we received the manuscript of this book we all felt that it was one of the most enchanting love-stories of its kind we had ever read: it had freshness, sensibility, imagination, and emotion' (the partners' notes, Pertelote 125).

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