A Book of Lear edited by R. L. Mégroz
SKU: 234
£10.50Price
Penguin first edition. Number 234. Published November 1939.
No dustwrapper, but front and rear flaps are pasted inside rear and front covers (respectively).
Covers dusty and spine darkening. Hinges unrubbed.
Pages clean but age toned.
Neat inked initials and date on half title. A poem by Lear, handwritten on two sheets of paper is tipped into book on half title. A press cutting with Lear's illustration of the poem is pasted to page7.
The photographs form part of the description.