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Limited first edition of Ada Harrison's Poems

Ada Harrison; illustrated by Robert Austin
Limited first edition. Tall 8vo. [50pp]. Vellum-backed Japanese paper boards, titled in gilt to spine; red endpapers. Frontispiece drawing by Robert Austin. Book designed by Vernon Shearer and privately printed for the author's family at the Stellar Press on Abbey Mills laid paper. No. 23 of 50 numbered copies.
Upper corners a tad bruised, else near fine.
Poetry collection. A travel and children's writer who teamed up with her husband, Royal Academician Robert Austin, to have her books illustrated, now chiefly known for her scholarly study Anne Brontë: Her Life and Work (1959), co-written with Derek Stanford.
edition
first edition
format
privately printed copy, limited edition
scarcity
scarce
publisher
Stellar Press
published in
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
publication year
1978
ISBN
not assigned
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
quarter vellum leather
binding state
original binding
condition
near fine
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ref.44Q 7R2