Author: WILKINSON,WALTER
Title: A Sussex Peep-Show
Description: London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Walter Wilkinson. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in blue cloth with black title lettering to spine in a good Dust-Jacket that has several small nicks and closed tears along the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Price clipped (But price still present to front flap) and this copy has no former names present.Maps as endpapers.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness.Uncommon title in original dust-jacket.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 204pp First Edition 3rd Impression [1947]. Very Good .

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