Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON
Title: Tarka the Otter. His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the County of the Two Rivers. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue K.C.V.O.
Description: G.P.Putnam & Sons Ltd, London, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, the deluxe large-paper issue, limited to 1,100 copies [in fact only 1,000]. Tall 8vo. xii, 255pp. Cloth-backed cream buckram with a gold-stamped leather spine label. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little darkened and with the tiniest hint of chafing and scoring to the leather spine label. Endpapers lightly spotted with some browning to a blank flyleaf and to the last printed leaf. A very crisp and bright copy of a handsome production. No dust wrapper called for. Henry Williamson Society reprint of the original pre-publication prospectus laid-in. Very Good.

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