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Damnable Opinions. (INSCRIBED)
by LLEWELYN POWYS
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- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Watts & Co., London, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "May from Lulu 1935", the recipient probably his friend and semi-regular correspondent the West Country poet May Chesshire (a selection of her letters to Powys was published in a limited edition in 1937). 8vo. xi, 116pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Portrait frontispiece. The backstrip ends lightly chipped and with a small area of discolouration where the dust wrapper is defective. The binding a little tender at the half-title and at one other gathering. Free endpapers very lightly toned. A nice bright copy in poor dust wrapper: somewhat dusty, creased, soiled and torn, and chipped with several areas of edge-loss. Fifteen essays. Uncommon thus. Foss B6..
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- Clearwater Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC16917
- Title
- Damnable Opinions. (INSCRIBED)
- Author
- LLEWELYN POWYS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Watts & Co., London
- Date Published
- 1935
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