Buy this book on-line J.B.MORTON (i.e. 'Beachcomber') : 1933 and Still Going Wrong! With drawings by Nicholas Bentley. (THE DEDICATION COPY)Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1932
First Edition (first printing) - the dedication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my darling Mary with all my heart from John". 4to. 84pp. Blue cloth lettered in red at the spine. Some light fox-spotting to half a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves and evidence of a little damp soiling to the rear board. A bright if slightly dusty copy in tanned and spotted dust wrapper, chipped at the spine ends with a little loss and with some minor corresponding signs of damp to the rear panel. A selection of twenty-two satirical poems ('Straight-Bat Barrington', 'The Debasing Influence of a Good Child', 'Gratuitous Advice to a Lady Who is Kind to Cats', etc.), with a printed dedication 'To My Wife'. Morton met and married Mary O'Leary, an Irish doctor, in 1927. They lived happily together until Mary's death in 1974, a fact Morton never fully adjusted to, believing in his confusion that she was still alive and even insisting on addressing all of the ladies in his eventual nursing home as 'Mary'.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of J.B.MORTON (i.e. 'Beachcomber') : 1933 and Still Going Wrong! With drawings by Nicholas Bentley. (THE DEDICATION COPY). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, libri rari, rare books, livres anciens and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |