WATERS, Fred. A Feather to Fly With. London: Cecil Palmer. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the vibrant dust jacket that goes uncredited. A very good book, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted, the contents clean throughout barring some offsetting to endpapers and final leaves. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel, with several small chips across edges and spine tips, rubbed and creased to extremities, several haphazard white sticker repairs to verso, but still presenting well.
An unusual criminous novel which follows John West’s life ‘from selling papers in the street, of how he became a very rich man and of how he eventually finished up in the river Thames’, with an odd fourth-wall-breaking epilogue the reader can choose to ignore.
WATERS, Fred. A Feather to Fly With. London: Cecil Palmer. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the vibrant dust jacket that goes uncredited. A very good book, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted, the contents clean throughout barring some offsetting to endpapers and final leaves. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel, with several small chips across edges and spine tips, rubbed and creased to extremities, several haphazard white sticker repairs to verso, but still presenting well.
An unusual criminous novel which follows John West’s life ‘from selling papers in the street, of how he became a very rich man and of how he eventually finished up in the river Thames’, with an odd fourth-wall-breaking epilogue the reader can choose to ignore.
