Threlfall (T.R.) The Great Magician
£200
London, Ward, Lock, 1901.
First edition, full-page autograph inscription from the author to the blank recto of the frontispiece. 8vo. 4 plates, 12pp. advertisements. Original pictorial cloth.
An appreciative, borderline fawning, gift inscription from the trade unionist and Liberal-Labour politician, T.R. Threlfall, to the Sir George Alexander Cooper, 1st Baronet.
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Minor worm-track affecting top edge and lower edge of some pages; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped.
Gifted by the author to Sir George Alexander Cooper, 1st Baronet (1856–1940).
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