The Sword in the Stone by White, T. H - 1939

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. BCE. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is lightly darkened on the spine; it is rough along the edges and folds, with a short tape repair at one spine fold at the bottom, and with all folds reinforced from within. Basically it give a very good appearance. There is no price on the flap, indicating that this is the book club edition. Only the presence of a price on the dustwrapper determines edition status as the books themselves are identical in both the first US and the book club editions. Overall this is a great lookalike for the first US edition. The first part of "The Once and Future King". Fantasy Literature, p. 174. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-266. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 54. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 20. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1116. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1149-57. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 208. Reginald 15254.