Peter Ibbetson. With a Preface by Daphne Du Maurier. Illustrated by the Author. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963.
One of 1,600 numbered copies. This being copy no. 1403.
Quarto. [vii], vi-xiii, [x], 6-344, [iv] pp. Including signed limitation page. Publisher's quarter black leather over decorated paper boards, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge stained dark brown, matching decorated endpapers. A fine copy with original slipcase. Slipcase is very lightly sunned, but still near fine.
Du Maurier (1834-96) was an illustrator, cartoonist and novelist. Father to the actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writer Daphne du Maurier, he was also on the staff of the satirical magazine Punch, for which he drew two cartoons a week, the most famous being True Humility.
Newman & Wiche, 350.
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3992
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50