John Drinkwater - Cotswold Characters - First Edition

DRINKWATER, John (1882-1937), [NASH, Paul, illustrator].

Cotswold Characters.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1921.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.54; [2]. Publisher's speckled paper covered boards, titles to paper label to upper. Dust-jacket printed in black to spine and upper, with printed price of $1.40 to front flap. Illustrated with five engravings on wood by Paul Nash.

Bookplate of Alexander Clark Doull to pastedown, old catalogue description pasted to flyleaf. Internally clean. Binding a little bumped to top edge. Dust-jacket has some tears and associated creasing, old tape repairs to reverse. Very good.