THE STAR-BORN. With an Introduction by Henry Williamson and Wood-engravings by C. F. Tunnicliffe.

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8vo. 9 x 6.25 inches. 235 pp. Bound in green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper with red and black titles, which has sunned spine with repaired tears and chips at head and tail, and small tear on lower edge of rear wrapper. Top edge gilt, others rough cut. Vellum paper and endpapers. A very good copy. Illustrated by 15 full page wood engravings, 18 tailpiece drawings and title and contents pages vignettes, all by Tunnicliffe. Decorated by tailpiece vignettes. The first edition of Williamson's imaginative novel, purporting to be written by William Maddison in The Pathway (1928); it relates the account of a young boy nurtured by spirits before being returned to his family in altered form. According to Matthews, Charles Tunnicliffe, was said to have been 'completely baffled,' when attempting to interpret the text (Matthews, Henry Williamson A Bibliography, A18, 1933 i). FICTION WILLIAMSON LIT. FICTION 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FICTION. N° de ref. del artículo 28307

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