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FARJEON, Eleanor.

The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket. Illustrated by Philip Gough.

Publisher: London, University of London Press, 1949

Stock code: 44116

Price: £45 Currency Conversion

First Gough Edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to her great-niece on the half-title "To Miriam with love from Nellie. Christmas 1949." Along with further annotations and inscriptions by Farjeon to the endpapers and half-title.

Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine in black. Illustrated coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Some light spotting to prelims, titles faded, spine and covers rubbed and faded, a very good copy.

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