Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day Lewis] – The Sad Variety – First Edition 1964 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED to ‘Nanny’ Bowler

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Nicholas Blake [Cecil Day Lewis] – The Sad Variety – First Edition 1964 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED to ‘Nanny’ Bowler

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£1,250.00

A first edition, first printing published by Collins Crime Club in 1964. A very good/near fine book with some spotting to the top edge, some off-setting to the front endpaper. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Day Lewis: ‘Nan/with love/CDL’. In a very good clipped wrapper with wear to the edges and corners. The recipient was Minnie Bowler, nanny to Cecil Day Lewis’s children (Daniel and Tamsin). Exceptionally rare warm inscription.


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A first edition, first printing published by Collins Crime Club in 1964. A very good/near fine book with some spotting to the top edge, some off-setting to the front endpaper. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Day Lewis: ‘Nan/with love/CDL’. In a very good clipped wrapper with wear to the edges and corners. The recipient was Minnie Bowler, nanny to Cecil Day Lewis’s children (Daniel and Tamsin). Exceptionally rare warm inscription.