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Mrs. Kimber: With eight drawings by Mary Kessell (double signed)

Description

LIMITED EDITION (unnumbered of 500), SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Small 4to, pp. [24] + Kessell’s frontis, 7 plates (mostly marine subjects), plus final tail-piece. Fawn paper boards, printed label to upper board. Wear and bumps to extremities, browned towards edges, a few marks. Sitwell’s inscription in black pen to ffep: “Miss Eve Harrison/ from, spiritually,/ Osbert Sitwell/ December. 17. 1937.” and below, in a slighter, less flamboyant hand: “Mary Kessell. December 21st 1937”, endpapers toned, clipped newspaper portrait of Sitwell pasted to half-title, some spotting, heavier at front. Else, clean. A good+ copy of Sitwell’s account in verse of the fisherman’s wife and mother, rare with the pair of signatures.

Price

£150.00