The Last of Uptake, by Harcourt-Smith, Simon

B. T. Batsford, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 79 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Front free endpaper is removed. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. White marks overall.

BATSFORD. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. B.T. Batsford undated edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

B.T. Batsford LTD, 1942. First edition (1942.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 80 pages. The book is in good condition with shelf wear and rubbing to edges of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition with a couple of small tears, white tape reinforcement to verso of dust jacket and slight rubbing to edges. Beautifully illustrated! "..the most sublime book .. illustrated by Rex Whistler!" Tan spine/Black text. #032513. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Rex Whistler. 8vo.

London: Batsford, 1942, 1942. Limited edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author and by the illustrator Rex Whistler. 4to; eighty pp.; twenty-two illustrations by Rex Whistler, with two in color. Owner's name, else a very good copy in original quarter leather with gilt backstrip. A country house story. (Whistler 499).