Description: This is a rare find for collectors and literature enthusiasts. A two-unit set of John Masefield's classic novels, The Midnight Folk (1927) and Box of Delights (1935). The hardcover books are published by William Heinemann Ltd in London, featuring the author's inscription on The Midnight Folk and both books are 1st editions. The Midnight Folk 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge blue, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vii], 8-327; a fine copy preserved in an exceptional example of the original, unclipped, dustwrapper with only slight rubbing to corner tips, otherwise crisp and unworn; from the collection of L.G.E. Bell and with his engraved book plate designed by Pauline Baynes. First Edition. This copy neatly inscribed in ink to front free endpaper by the author: “The luck will altar & the star will rise. John Masefield” [together with:], The Box of Delights or When the Wolves were Running New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gray, decorative end papers, preserved in white pictorial dust wrapper; pp. [viii] + 418; with delightful chapter headings and vignettes decorating the text; a near fine copy with just a trace of light speckling to fore-edge of book block; the unclipped dustwrapper in amazingly fresh condition, with the white decorated panels fresh and unblemished, with none of the expected dusting, corner tips and base of spine with minute nicks and with one thumbnail area of expert, and practically indiscernible, restoration at head of spine.
Price: 2000 USD
Location: Paradise Valley, Arizona
End Time: 2024-11-30T17:15:52.000Z
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Signed: Yes
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1927
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Inscribed
Author: John Masefield
Personalized: No
Topic: Fantasy
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Unit Quantity: 2