Author: DEVOE, SHIRLEY SPAULDING
Title: English Papier Mâché of the Georgian and Victorian Periods. MRS. GRAHAM GREENE'S COPY
Description: London, Barrie & Jenkins. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0214653307). Cloth. Hardback 4to. 180mm x 260mm tall (7" x 10.25" approx.). Pp xviii, 193, with a frontispiece plate and 180 other b/w photo illustrations. Ex-libris Vivien Greene, Widow of Graham Greene, with her 1971 dated signature to the front free endpaper and various notes in her hand to the preliminary blank leaves. TOGETHER with a signed, hand-written letter from the Author, dated Sept. 11th 1971, thanking Mrs Greene for her 'warm tribute'. Very good, in the original blue/black cloth/gilt-on-red- spine title, and with very lightly rubbed, unclipped, colour-illustrated dust-wrapper. Very Good/Very Good, Unclipped. Letter Signed by Author.

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