SMITH, Dodie. I Capture the Castle (SIGNED)
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith. 1949. William Heinemann. 8vo. Blue cloth. Warmly inscribed by Smith on a tipped-in page at front, “Signed, with pleasure, for Joy Bessie Thomas. Dodie Smith. Beverley Hills, California. November, 1949”. This copy being the second printing of the UK edition, published in the same month as the first. A fair copy, some wear to the binding, cloth cracked at rear board/spine hinge, spine panel faded, some hinges showing or starting, but all holding firm. Binding square. Internally, heavy foxing to tipped-in page, lighter at prelims, the odd area of scattered foxing throughout though the text remains generally clean and bright. Presented in a fine facsimile dust jacket in Mylar. Smith’s most famed work.
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith. 1949. William Heinemann. 8vo. Blue cloth. Warmly inscribed by Smith on a tipped-in page at front, “Signed, with pleasure, for Joy Bessie Thomas. Dodie Smith. Beverley Hills, California. November, 1949”. This copy being the second printing of the UK edition, published in the same month as the first. A fair copy, some wear to the binding, cloth cracked at rear board/spine hinge, spine panel faded, some hinges showing or starting, but all holding firm. Binding square. Internally, heavy foxing to tipped-in page, lighter at prelims, the odd area of scattered foxing throughout though the text remains generally clean and bright. Presented in a fine facsimile dust jacket in Mylar. Smith’s most famed work.
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith. 1949. William Heinemann. 8vo. Blue cloth. Warmly inscribed by Smith on a tipped-in page at front, “Signed, with pleasure, for Joy Bessie Thomas. Dodie Smith. Beverley Hills, California. November, 1949”. This copy being the second printing of the UK edition, published in the same month as the first. A fair copy, some wear to the binding, cloth cracked at rear board/spine hinge, spine panel faded, some hinges showing or starting, but all holding firm. Binding square. Internally, heavy foxing to tipped-in page, lighter at prelims, the odd area of scattered foxing throughout though the text remains generally clean and bright. Presented in a fine facsimile dust jacket in Mylar. Smith’s most famed work.