THE DEDICATION COPY
Christmas Pudding
Thornton Butterworth, 1932.
First edition. Publisher's red and grey speckled cloth, lettered in blue. The dedication copy, inscribed on the dedication leaf to Robert Byron "oh dear Robert please don't be cross about this will you? with love from Nancy 24 Nov : 1932" Frontispiece and twelve further Wauvian line drawings by Mark Ogilvie-Grant. A very good copy with the rear joint mostly split, but holding, and spine faded.
Mitford's second novel, described by Harold Acton, with careful ambiguity, as 'frolicsome'.
Stock ID: 42619
£9,500.00