Haslett (G. Wyndham) Portrait in Shadows
£225
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An uncommon title in the Youngman Carter jacket, especially signed by the author, a writer whose fiction engages with questions of human consciousness and illusion, apparently.
In stock
Toning to endpapers, some minor spotting; cloth rather rubbed and marked; jacket with wear to edges, some chipping and creasing, small section of loss to spine.
Jacket artwork by Youngman Carter.
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