Henry Williamson | Tarka the Otter. London: Chiswick Press, 1927, first edition, presentation copy

Henry Williamson

Tarka the Otter. [London: Chiswick Press] Privately printed for Subscribers only, 1927

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (245 x 164mm.), ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR FOR SUBSCRIBERS, this being copy number 32, inscribed by the author "Henry Williamson for Hubert Shapland" with an original sketch of an owl, English handmade paper, ORIGINAL VELLUM, top edge gilt, others uncut, flat spine with gilt label, minor spotting to endpapers, covers slightly bowed

PROVENANCE:

Hubert Shapland, subscriber, presentation inscription by the author. Presumably this is Hubert R. Shapland, dentist, of The Priory, Barnstaple, Devon