Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day Lewis] – The Beast Must Die – First UK Edition 1938
£475.00
A first edition, first printing published by Collins in 1938. A very good book with evidence of some bookplate removal to front pastedown and front endpaper. A small number to the top of the pastedown. Some spotting to pages. Boards generally full of colour. In a dust wrapper which is unclipped and has benefitted from some professional restoration to the edges and corners (particularly the bottom edge). Some rubbing to printing on the rear flap. A good wrapper and a rare book by the Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis.Rare.
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A first edition, first printing published by Collins in 1938. A very good book with evidence of some bookplate removal to front pastedown and front endpaper. A small number to the top of the pastedown. Some spotting to pages. Boards generally full of colour. In a dust wrapper which is unclipped and has benefitted from some professional restoration to the edges and corners (particularly the bottom edge). Some rubbing to printing on the rear flap. A good wrapper and a rare book by the Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis.Rare.
