London: Joiner & Steele, Ltd., 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+. Clare Leighton. Signed by author and numbered [26/550] on the limitation page. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Pages unopened. Frontispiece by Clare Leighton. Eleven page foreword by Geoffrey West. Original acetate jacket. 67, [1] pp. 10 x 6.25 inches. No. 11 of the Furnival Books. Contains a tipped in slip prefacing the title page which states that "The Furnival Books are now published by Joiner & Steele [...] the name 'William Jackson (Books) Ltd' has been retained on the title-page in order that the set of twelve books may be typographically uniform." Printed in London by Charles Whittingham and Griggs at the Chiswick Press. Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer. She died the year after Christmas Formula was published, of pneumonia while in Tonkin, the northern Vietnamese region of French Indochina.

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Bookseller: Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011294
Title: Christmas Formula and Other Stories
Author: Stella Benson
Illustrator: Clare Leighton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Joiner & Steele, Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1932
Keywords: Clare Leighton, fine press, Furnival, William Jackson, Geoffrey West, Chiswick Press,

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