The Little Locksmith

by Katharine Butler Hathaway

£48 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Faber and Faber, 1944. Memoir FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.167 1 . Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Times Book Club stamp to rear pastedown. Light toning and marking to jacket, with minimal wear to edges. A lovely crisp, clean copy. Near fine. The unique memoirs of a woman who lived out her childhood strapped to a wooden board, having been diagnosed with Spinal

• Printing: later

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