THE WITCHES' BREW [Poems]. With Decorations by John Austen
by Pratt, E. J
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Cloth spine, paper covered boards. Recipient's ink name on front pastedown ("Maxine Taylor"). Canadian art scholar Newton MacTav
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About This Item
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1926. First Canadian edition [not in Watters, which lists only the 1925 English edition; see Watters, p. 161]. Iillustrated (with decorations by John Austen).32pp. 12mo. Cloth spine, paper covered boards. Recipient's ink name on front pastedown ("Maxine Taylor"). Canadian art scholar Newton MacTavish's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Spine label is moderately browned and nicked, rubbed at tips of spine and extremities, endpapers and few pages of text are moderately foxed, else a very good copy. First Canadian edition [not in Watters, which lists only the 1925 English edition; see Watters, p. 161]. Iillustrated (with decorations by John Austen).32pp. 12mo.
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- 327170
- Title
- THE WITCHES' BREW [Poems]. With Decorations by John Austen
- Author
- Pratt, E. J
- Format/Binding
- Iillustrated (with decorations by John Austen).32pp. 12mo
- Book Condition
- New Cloth spine, paper covered boards. Recipient's ink name on front pastedown ("Maxine Taylor"). Canadian art scholar Newton MacTav
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian edition [not in Watters, which lists only the 192
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1926
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- 12mo
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