Description

• First Thus [The Folio Society, London, 1947]; 276 pages, grey papered boards over buckram cloth, gold titling to spine, grey topstainbookseller sticker inside front board, a near-fine copy; in the excellent illustrated dustjacket, a little rubbed along edges, chipped at spine ends, 3cm tear at top rear corner
• With six lithographic plates of pencil studies by the author
• Includes du Maurier’s satirical sketch of James McNeill Whistler as Svengali
• The second book published by Folio, although the printing of the first book, Tolstoy’s Tales, “leaves a good deal to be desired” [Folio 21] & “the standard of printing is rather higher in this second book from the Society” [Folio 50]