Fuchs (Daniel) Summer in Williamsburg
£95
London, Constable, 1935.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first volume of what became known as the ‘Williamsburg Trilogy’, followed by Homage to Blenholt (1936) and Low Company (1937). Uncommon.
In stock
Some foxing, bookseller’s small label to front pastedown; jacket chipped at corners and extremities, some loss to spine ends, with hole to spine.
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