Mr. Chambers and Persephone by Whitfield, Christopher - 1937

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937 pp 63 A crisp textblock with slight browning in a moderately worn/marked wrapper. Pics available

London: Golden Cockrell Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5" by 6.5". Dorothea Braby. A smart first edition of this charming tale from Whitfield, with wood-engravings throughout. First edition. In the scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with frontispiece and four full-page wood-engravings. Collated complete. A charming and passionate story following a young Mr. Chambers and his relationship with the mysterious and beautiful Persephone. Written by Christopher Whitfield, a British author. Illustrated by Dorothea Braby, a British artist known for her book illustrations. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and sunning to the spine and board edges. The odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the first and last… Read More

Golden Cockerel, 1937. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. #33/150cc, signed by the author. Leather spine sunned.