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Richmal Crompton | William's Television Show, 1958, first edition, presentation copy inscribed

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Lot Closed

July 20, 01:24 PM GMT

Estimate

500 - 600 GBP

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Richmal Crompton


William's Television Show. London: George Newnes, 1958


8vo (185 x 121mm.), FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY RICHMAL CROMPTON TO HER SISTER (" Gwen | with love from | Ray (Richmal Crompton)"), illustrations by Thomas Henry, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket, preserved in wooden box, endpapers lightly offset, jacket frayed and creased with some loss at extremities


LITERATURE:

Lofts and Adley 31


PROVENANCE:

Gwen Disher, thence by descent to Thomas and Margaret Disher

Gwen Disher, thence by descent to Thomas and Margaret Disher
Lofts and Adley 31