A PENKNIFE IN MY HEART

by Nicholas Blake, C. Day Lewis

$40 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New York: Harper & Row, 1958. First American edition. First edition C-I, as stated. Maroon and grey cloth boards; illustrated dustjacket; 8vo. Publisher’s blue tissue seal covering end chapters still in tact. Dustwrapper, not price-clipped, worn at extremities, with tears at corners and spine ends; toning to jacket extremities and spine. Boards rubbed at tips and head and tail of spine.

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