INSCRIBED TO THE PUBLISHER GORDON FRASER.

GARNETT, David; R. A. GARNETT [Illus.] ~ A Man in the Zoo. Inscribed by the author.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Chatto & Windus, London: 1924.

8vo., publisher's mottled red and black cloth; printed pink title label to spine; upper edge gilt, outer edges untrimmed; with charming title vignette and several additional full page and vignette wood engravings by R. A. Garnett; in the red printed dustwrapper priced 5/- net to spine; THE BOOK very good, a little rubbed at spine tips; light offsetting and spotting to the endleaves; a few spots encroaching onto pages; spare title label tipped in at rear; THE WRAPPER also very good, though darkened to spine and folds, and chipped to edges, particularly the spine tips and ends of folds with a little loss not affecting borders or text; the spine very discretely reinforced to verso. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. FIRST UK EDITION. This copy neatly inscribed by the author to the ffep: "Gordon Fraser / from David Garnett." The recipient was a British publisher and literary editor, a former student of F.R. Leavis who founded several publishing houses in his life and owned a bookshop/gallery in Cambridge specialising in off-beat topics.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Very Good
JACKET: Very Good