Lot 147
Mitford (Nancy) Christmas Pudding, first edition, Thomas Butterworth, 1932
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Mitford (Nancy) Christmas Pudding, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations by Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 1p. advertisements, bookplate of Cecil G.W, Eve to front pastedown, original red-green cloth lettered in blue, sunning to head and foot of spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, first state dust-jacket priced at 7/6 and with coloured vertical stripes to upper panel, spine browned with chipping to head touching first word of title and 2" portion of loss to foot, chip to upper joint, panels light browned with a few chips and short closed tears to head, 8vo, Thomas Butterworth, 1932.
⁂ Mitford's second novel, exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket.
Description
Mitford (Nancy) Christmas Pudding, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations by Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 1p. advertisements, bookplate of Cecil G.W, Eve to front pastedown, original red-green cloth lettered in blue, sunning to head and foot of spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, first state dust-jacket priced at 7/6 and with coloured vertical stripes to upper panel, spine browned with chipping to head touching first word of title and 2" portion of loss to foot, chip to upper joint, panels light browned with a few chips and short closed tears to head, 8vo, Thomas Butterworth, 1932.
⁂ Mitford's second novel, exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket.
