Stephen Lawford, Youth Uncharted, first edition, 1935
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Stephen Lawford, Youth Uncharted, first edition, 1935

Lawford [Childs] (Stephen) Youth Uncharted

£95

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1935.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered & ruled in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

A mock-heroic autobiography addressed to the author’s son, recounting tales of adventure and derring-do in post-War Russia and Eastern Europe.

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A little light mottling to cloth; jacket price-clipped and rather rubbed with some wear to spine-ends.

Map endpapers.

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