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1944 Borrobil
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, first impression.
In the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To E. S. de Beer, with all friendly greetings, W. Croft Dickinson, Dec 1944.
Esmond de Beer was a scholar, editor, and bibliophile from New Zealand. He worked as an editor for the Clarendon Press.
An entertaining fantasy tale for children, in which two young children find themselves transported to an early Scotland where magic is rife.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and in-text illustrations throughout, by John Morton Sale.
Written by the leading scholar on early modern Scotland, William Croft Dickinson.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper. Minor handling marks and discolouration to the wraps, with some spots to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Fine
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