Brae Farm

written and lithographed by Tom Gentleman
Transatlantic Arts Co. Ltd, 1st edition 1945 | Printed at The Curwen Press

‘A Country Story for Children’ – a quite charming book, based on the author’s childhood memories.*

Hardback. Pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper. [48]pp including colour illustrations. Size: 9.5 x 7 inches approx. (242mm x 181mm).

Dustwrapper rubbed and worn, some dustiness; wear to spine ends and corner tips with small loss; some short tears and wear to top edge; a repair with a strip of what appears to be archival tape to top edge of rear panel verso; a few short tears to bottom edge, especially to front flap; untidily price-clipped. Covers with light shelfwear to lower edge but otherwise spine and boards are clean and bright. Endpapers foxed and spotted; an ownership inscription in ink to front free endpaper and a pencilled bookseller’s code to rear paste-down; occasional scattered foxing but generally pages clean throughout.

Nonetheless, showing some wear commensurate with age and storage but otherwise a nice example – uncommon, and rather lovely.

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References

*Drawn Direct to the Plate (pages 79-80) – Joe Pearson (Penguin Collectors Society, 2010)