Fine Books & Manuscripts - Catalogue 89

J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S

The Dedication Copy, Inscribed For Robert Byron

40. Christmas Pudding MITFORD, Nancy

Thornton Butterworth, 1932. First edition. Publisher’s red and grey speckled cloth, let- tered in blue. The dedication copy, inscribed on the dedication leaf to Robert Byron “oh dear Robert please don’t be cross about this will you? with love from Nancy 24 Nov : 1932” Frontispiece and twelve further Wauvian line drawings by Mark Ogil- vie-Grant. A very good copy with the rear joint mostly split, but holding, and spine faded. [42619] £9,500 Mitford’s second novel, described by Harold Acton, with careful ambiguity, as ‘frolicsome’.

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