One Small Boy wrestling and contributed illustrations to issues

and contributed illustrations to issues 5

12 doublespread engraved plates

silver dust-jacket overprinted in blood red

Jacket slightly rubbed at head of the backstrip

Complete in 12 volumes

One Small Boy wrestling and contributed illustrations to issuesLondon: MacGibbon & Key, 1957. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket by Gerard Dillon, couple of short closed tears to rear panel, but a nice bright copy. A few light spots of foxing to endpapers. Without old inscriptions etc. Bill Naughton (1910 92) is best remembered for his 1965 play 'Alfie'. This is probably the most autobiographical of his novels, concering a family of Irish emigrants in a Lancashire