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1932 The Fortress
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Description
First Edition, Folding Maps, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed
The first and limited large paper edition, limited to three hundred and ten unnumbered copies.
Signed by the author to the limitation page.
Illustrated with a folding map, and a folding genealogy.
'The Fortress' is one of Walpole's novels in his series following the Herries family across decades, set in the early nineteenth century in the Lake District.
An impressive foray into historical fiction, this novel focussing on the house built by Walter Herries, his animosity to the family's matriarch, Judith, and the rest of their family.
Written by Hugh Walpole.
Condition
In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding, with paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with a small amount of loss of paper to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards , heavier to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with a few scattered spots to the first and last few pages.
Very Good
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