Walpole (Hugh) Four Fantastic Tales
£550
London, Macmillan, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth decorated in black to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A stunning example of this wonderful Walpole edition, featuring the excellent jacket artwork by Rex Whistler. The tales present are:
Maradick at Forty
The Prelude to Adventure
Portrait of a man with red hair
Above the dark circus
In stock
An exceptionally bright copy, in very good jacket with just a few minor closed tears.
Jacket artwork and vignettes by Rex Whistler.
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