This is the Hour (signed presentation copy) cairo stated first printing

stated first printing

London : Ingram

A pictorial biography of the Scottish artist from the Borders

one parochial table (ds)

Old owner names to the fly-leaf

This is the Hour (signed presentation copy) cairo stated first printingLondon: Fortune Press, c1942. Signed with presentation inscription from the author, dated December 1942. No printed publishing date but London Library gives 1942 which would tally with the inscription, perhaps signed at the book's launch or soon after. Original pale blue cloth boards, lower board heavily soiled. Without the dust jacket. The inscription runs, "For Mr & Mrs Burgess, in remembrances of a happy encounter, from Agnes Grozier Herbertson