Author: WILKINSON,WALTER
Title: Vagabonds and Puppets
Description: London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Walter Wilkinson. This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in light blue cloth with dark blue title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has a 1.4'' closed tear along the edge of spine,light rubbing also to extremities of the d/j.Not Price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names present..Maps as endpapers.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness.Uncommon title in original dust-jacket and in this condition.Walter Wilkinson wrote and had published a series of eight books about his travels with his puppet show in England and Scotland, Wales and America.He built a barrow which converted into the theatre which he would erect on village greens, in schools or wherever he could find an audience. He carried his tent on his barrow and spent the summers camping in the countryside. He was a popular author in the 1930s and 1940s, receiving positive reviews from the likes of D. H. Lawrence, J. B. Priestley and other contemporary critics.He illustrated the end papers and dust jackets of his books himself with annotated maps,8vo 207pp First Edition 5th Impression [1945]. Very Good+ .

Keywords: Puppets Punch & Judy


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