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Confessions of an Incurable Collector (Signed Presentation copy)

Author(s):

Coke, Desmond

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

1st Impression

Signature:

Inscribed by Illustrator(s)

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Chapman and Hall

Publication Year:

1928

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

028160

Catalogue(s):

£24.00

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First edition. xii, 256pp, with tissue-guarded plate frontispiece and several further plate illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper by Desmond Coke to his sister Dorothy. 8vo. Cloth is worn and a little marked, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a little sunned over spine. Dusty text block edges. Slightly tanned endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Captain Desmond Coke (1879 – 1931) described himself as an ‘incurable’ collector of objects d’art. He was also a novelist – best remembered for his 1906 novel, The Bending of a Twig) who drew on his experiences as a schoolmaster. He also wrote under the pen-name Belinda Blinders.

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