Richmal Crompton | Jimmy, 1949, first edition, presentation copy inscribed

Richmal Crompton

Jimmy. London: George Newnes, 1949

8vo (186 x 117mm.), FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY RICHMAL CROMPTON TO HER SISTER ("Gwen, with love from | Ray (Richmal Crompton)"), illustrations by Lunt Roberts, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket, preserved in wooden box, jacket torn with loss to lower cover and backstrip

PROVENANCE:

Gwen Disher, thence by descent to Thomas and Margaret Disher