James Hilton – Goodbye Mr Chips! – First UK Edition 1934 – SIGNED and a Passage From The Novel and With Wrap-Around Band
£3,500.00
A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1934. A very good copy with spotting to the page edges and a few spots to the preliminaries. Signed on the title page: “Anne Scott-Russell / Sincerely / James Hilton”. Hilton has additionally written the passage from page 95: “For the first time in his life he felt necessary — and necessary to something that was nearest his heart. There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last.”
In the very good unclipped Bip Pares-designed dust wrapper, with slight wear to the corners and spine tips. Complete with the rare Evening Standard Book of the Month wrap-around band. A beautiful, inscribed copy of this landmark novel.
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A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1934. A very good copy with spotting to the page edges and a few spots to the preliminaries. Signed on the title page: “Anne Scott-Russell / Sincerely / James Hilton”. Hilton has additionally written the passage from page 95: “For the first time in his life he felt necessary — and necessary to something that was nearest his heart. There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last.”
In the very good unclipped Bip Pares-designed dust wrapper, with slight wear to the corners and spine tips. Complete with the rare Evening Standard Book of the Month wrap-around band. A beautiful, inscribed copy of this landmark novel.
