Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON
Title: The Phasian Bird. With illustrations by Israel Doskow.
Description: Little, Brown & Co. Boston, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The First American edition, the text quite heavily revised and with illustrations (a title page vignette and twenty-five line drawings) which did not appear in the English edition of 1948. 8vo. 276pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. Edges lightly spotted. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and a little nicked and chafed at the edges with several short internally repaired tears. The printed dedication to the author's friends, Holly and Mossy Hollingsworth, is here reinstated (the first UK edition was to have been dedicated to the Hollingworths, but Williamson decided to omit the tribute lest they be tarnished by his current unpopularity). Very Good/Good.

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