A Boy at the Hogarth Press - First Edition - Whittington Press
£420.00
A leather-bound, signed, limited edition of
A Boy at the Hogarth Press
by Richard Kennedy
printed in 1972 at the Whittington Press
This copy no. 510 is one of only 25 bound in leather with Gold edged pages
by A.W Lumsden Ltd,Edinburgh.
The title page reads
Richard Kennedy
A Boy at the Hogarth Press
illustrated by the author
with an introduction by Bevis Hiller
This was the first book published by John Randle at the now historic Whittington Press.
TRULY A COLLECTORS ITEM
The Whittington Press, 1972. Limited edition, no. 510 of 520 copies
signed by the author, small 4to, (xii),86, (2) pp. Line drawings in the text plus a folding
plate at the end.
The spine is heavily sunned and marked but the book has lived in a slipcase from publication and otherwise is in near perfect condition.
The author worked for Leonard and Virginia Woolf for two years,
starting in 1928 at the age of 16.
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