Guinness (Bryan) A Week by the Sea
£135
London, Putnam, 1936.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, inscribed to front free endpaper, dated 1968. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Bryan Guinness’s comedy follows young Esther, sent to the seaside town of Mudmouth to cure her melancholy and infatuation with a communist.
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Jacket with some creasing and chipping, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Michael Gibbon.
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