Richmal Crompton | William and the Masked Ranger, 1966, first edition, presentation copy inscribed

Richmal Crompton

William and the Masked Ranger. London: George Newnes, 1966

8vo (184 x 118mm.), FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY RICHMAL CROMPTON TO HER SISTER ("Gwen | with much love from | Ray (Richmal Crompton)"), illustrations by Henry Ford, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket, preserved in wooden box, jacket slightly discoloured and faintly creased at backstrip, OTHERWISE A VERY GOOD COPY

LITERATURE:

Lofts and Adley 36

PROVENANCE:

Gwen Disher, thence by descent to Thomas and Margaret Disher