Bartlett (Vernon) Tomorrow Always Comes
£75
London, Chatto & Windus, 1943.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.
A very good first edition of this post-war prediction that seeks to outline the difficulties Europe in particular faces once the Second World War is over.
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A very good in jacket with trifling rubbing to extremities.
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