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Dover Publications, 1969-10T. paperback. Good. 0.5000 in x 7.9000 in x 5.3000 in.

Dover Publications, 1968. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. cover and pages age toned, handful of light creases to cover

dover,, 1968 first edition . fine, unread trade paperback,

Grey Walls Press , 1943 . First printing in a price-clipped jacket. The pale jacket is heavily foxed, & marked with cup-rings. The boards are worn & threadbare at the edges. There is a little damage to the top of the ffep, apparently due to the page becoming stuck to the front pastedown in the production process: the small missing patch of paper is still glued to the front pastedown. The book is slant, with the front cover set forward. There is some foxing to the outer edge of the page-block. The frontispiece & text pages are in very good condition, with some foxing to the final page.

Dover Publications, Inc. Good. 1968. Clean & Tight Contents. Soft Cover. (K316) .

London: Gray Walls Press, 1943. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Black publisher's cloth with spine titles in gilt. Small octavo. 159 pages. With frontis and rear illustration by John Caxton. Interior clean with some mild even age toning. Binding a little shaken but solid. Cover has bit of wear at spine ends, corners bumped, some edgewear to bottom boards. In complete dust jacket with illustration by Craxton [same as his frontis illustration]. Publisher's original price on inside flap. Jacket has small chip at top of rear panel, wear at the folds, closed tear at rear panel, spine browned but titles bright, general toning to jacket which is in a mylar protector. [see photos]

1st edition inscribed and signed to previous owner -Vicky- by Ruthven Todd - Ruthven, on front facing end paper. The dust jacket shows small tears and stains.. Dust jacket and illustration by John Craxton.

Grey Walls, 1943. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

in original dust sheet. First Edition
Todd's two allegorical novels Over the Mountain (1939) and The Lost Traveller (1943) both feature protagonists on symbolic journeys; Todd acknowledged the influence of Lewis and Rex Warner on the latter novel. Over the Mountain, a satire on fascism, has its hero travel to a dystopian nation with an oppressive government. During World War II he was a conscientious objector. Near the start of the war, he began work on an ambitious project in collaboration with the William Blake expert Sir Geoffrey Keynes to compile a catalogue raisonné of the artworks of William Blake. The project was to be abandoned in 1947, after Todd moved to New York, but not before a great deal had been achieved.
Ruthven Campbell Todd (pronounced 'riven') (14 June 1914 – 11 October 1978) was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, best known as an editor of the works of William Blake, and expert on his printing techniques. During the 1940s he also wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym R.… Leer más