Item #124833 The Old Wives' Tale. Arnold. Swinnerton Bennett, John, Frank . Austen, intro.
The Old Wives' Tale.

The Old Wives' Tale.

1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941.

2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2 lacking. Bumping and wear to tips of vol. 2, shelf wear to slipcase, otherwise a clean square copy.

§ Copy #245 of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story of the lives of two sisters which was adapted into a 1921 film starring Fay Compton. Item #124833

Price: $275.00