Description
A first limited edition, first printing of Sermons and Soda-Water by John O’Hara, published by The Cresset Press, London in 1961, comprising The Girl on the Baggage Truck, Imagine Kissing Pete and We’re Friends Again, number 34 of 525 copies. The Girl on the Baggage Truck a fine copy SIGNED in blue ink by the author to the limitation page, the boards three quarter bound in green and ivory marbled paper, with the ivory paper spine bordered with debossed gilt, gilt titling to a contrasting green spine label, strips of toning to the spine tips, text block bright and crisp with green top stain, strips of adhesive tape to front and rear paste-downs with associated ghosting to the free end papers. Imagine Kissing Pete and We’re Friends Again also fine SIGNED copies, similarly with toning to the spine tips and issues of internal strips of adhesive tape to the paste-downs. In a paper bound slip-case with splitting to the joins of spine tips and boards, a paper title label with blue ink annotations.
