The Snow Goose. Illustrations by Peter Scott. [First Illustrated Edition. Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
by GALLICO Paul
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- Hardcover
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph,, [1947]. 8vo., Third Impression thus, with title and text in blue and black, coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, numerous monochrome illustrations (3 full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; original navy buckram, snow goose motif blocked in white and black on upper board, backstrip lettered in white, blue top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Third impression of Scott's classic illustrated edition, published a year after the first. The frontispiece portrait of Fritha is modelled on Scott's first wife, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I stood for hours, holding a pillow, which he turned into the wounded snow goose' (Howard's memoirs). ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43527
- Title
- The Snow Goose. Illustrations by Peter Scott. [First Illustrated Edition. Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- GALLICO Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph,
- Date Published
- [1947]
- Keywords
- illustrated, modern first editions, modern firsts, paul gallico, peter scott, snow goose, dunkirk, elizabeth jane howard
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- Buckram
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- Dustwrapper
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