Laura Knight – A Proper Circus Omie – SIGNED & INSCRIBED – First Edition 1962
£485.00
A first edition, first printing of A Proper Circus Omie by Laura Knight, published by Peter Davies in 1962, with 42 monochrome drawings, pictorial end-papers and colour frontispiece illustrated by the author. A near fine book signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page in blue ink, boards bound in original publisher’s yellow cloth with blue titling to the spine and publisher’s blind stamp to the rear board, pushing to the spine tips, the text block browning with spotting to the top edge. The good price clipped wrapper with open tears to the head of the spine, front panel and rear panel, open tear to the spine, chipping to the foot of the spine, chipping to the knuckles of the front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine and browning throughout.
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A first edition, first printing of A Proper Circus Omie by Laura Knight, published by Peter Davies in 1962, with 42 monochrome drawings, pictorial end-papers and colour frontispiece illustrated by the author. A near fine book signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page in blue ink, boards bound in original publisher’s yellow cloth with blue titling to the spine and publisher’s blind stamp to the rear board, pushing to the spine tips, the text block browning with spotting to the top edge. The good price clipped wrapper with open tears to the head of the spine, front panel and rear panel, open tear to the spine, chipping to the foot of the spine, chipping to the knuckles of the front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine and browning throughout.
