The Thirteen Travellers
by WALPOLE, Hugh
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London, Hutchinson & Co., [1921] . First edition, presentation copy to Sir Gerald Kelly, 8vo (192 x 137 mm, 7½ x 5½ in), 24pp publisher's advertisements bound in at end, a few leaves slightly stained at margins; publisher's green cloth, top edge slightly dust-soiled, spine slightly discoloured, extremities slightly rubbed, good overall.
Manuscript dedication to the artist Sir Gerald Kelly (1797-1972): 'Some of these stories are failures completely. One or two are not bad but I like space and room, and the 'conte' [continent] always seems to me to have been done so well by French and Russians that we can only imitate them. | To Gerald | from Hugh Walpole | July 1, 1922'.
Kelly painted Walpole between 1924 and 1925, and the British Library holds a first edition of Walpole's The Dark Forest, also with a lengthy manuscript dedication to the artist on the fly-leaf (https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/03/konstantin-somov-and-hugh-walpole-in-russia.html?msclkid=bb662a96c31811eca40f0a5ff9a3297c).
Manuscript dedication to the artist Sir Gerald Kelly (1797-1972): 'Some of these stories are failures completely. One or two are not bad but I like space and room, and the 'conte' [continent] always seems to me to have been done so well by French and Russians that we can only imitate them. | To Gerald | from Hugh Walpole | July 1, 1922'.
Kelly painted Walpole between 1924 and 1925, and the British Library holds a first edition of Walpole's The Dark Forest, also with a lengthy manuscript dedication to the artist on the fly-leaf (https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/03/konstantin-somov-and-hugh-walpole-in-russia.html?msclkid=bb662a96c31811eca40f0a5ff9a3297c).
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106494
- Title
- The Thirteen Travellers
- Author
- WALPOLE, Hugh
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Hutchinson & Co., [1921]
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About Shapero Rare Books
Specialising in rare books on Travel & Voyages, Natural History, Literature (including modern first editions), Children's Books, Guide Books, Judaica & Hebraica, titles of Russian interest, and Islamica.
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