Author: White, T.H..
Title: The Witch in the Wood. With Decorations by the Author.
Description: New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 1939. - Ovtavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Blue publisher's cloth titled in gilt on the spine and a vignette in gilt on the front cover, in the original illustrated dust wrapper with the price present at the top of the front flap (i.e. the dust wrapper is not price-clipped). The top edge of the book is red. The covers are slightly rubbed and bumped and there is some minor fading to the top edge. The edges of the dust jacket are creased and chipped and a small tear to the fold of the jacket's spine has been reinforced with archival linen tape from the verso. vii, [i], 269 & [1] pages, with a title page vignette and head and tail piece illustrations by T.H. White. Eight pages at the rear have been somewhat roughly opened with chipping to the front edges of 2 leaves. Good.

First American edition, first printing. This American edition is the true First Edition, published the year before the British edition.

This is the second book in T.H. White's Arthurian trilogy. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; FANTASY; ARTHURIAN LEGENDS; THE WITCH IN THE WOOD; NOVEL; T.H. WHITE; FICTION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; FIRST PRINTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; DECORATIONS; VINGETTES.

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