Private Angelo
1957, 1st edition in this form. London : Privately printed. Very good copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #401737
Physical description; 234 pp. Notes; "Of this book, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1946, two thousand copies were printed at Christmas 1957 for Sir Allen Lane and Richard Lane by McCorquodale & Co Ltd, London, and bound by the Dorstel Press Ltd, Harlow, Essex. The endpapers were designed by David Gentleman and printed by Lowe & Brydon Ltd, London. The book was composed entirely without metal type: it is the first to have been produced in Great Britain by means of photocomposition on the Intertype Fotosetter."--Colophon. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 ; Fiction. Phototypesetting Great Britain ; Specimens. English fiction 20th century.
Price: €45.00