Richmal Crompton | William and the Space Animal, 1956, first edition, presentation copy

Richmal Crompton

William and the Space Animal. London: George Newnes, 1956

8vo (184 x 122mm.), FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY RICHMAL CROMPTON TO HER SISTER GWEN ("Gwen | with much love from Ray | (Richmal Crompton)"), illustrations by Thomas Henry, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket, preserved in wooden box, endpapers offset, jacket frayed and slightly chipped with some loss at extremities

LITERATURE:

Lofts and Adley 30

PROVENANCE:

Gwen Disher, thence by descent to Thomas Disher and Margaret Disher