The Despain Papers: [a novel] - author's copy typescript (second draft), 1991

GEORGE SIMS

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4to. Binder's cloth, lettered in gilt. Covers faintly damp-marked. With the author's (Will Carter, rust) book-label. Title-page (set by Alan Anderson?), epigraph page + 171pp. text, with the author's occasional corrections apparent. The book was published by Holmes Publishing Co, i.e. Sims's friend and fellow dealer David Holmes, in Philadelphia in 1992. The dustwrapper blurb read: "Jack Quinn, a dealer in rare books and manuscripts, is asked by an American customer to discover what had happened to the papers of Gerald Despain, a fanatical anti-Semite and British traitor, who flew to Germany on the outbreak of war in September 1939 in order to join the Nazis. The papers had been sold in Marlow to a buyer who gave the name 'Mr. Principle' . . .". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32M100452B

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Titel: The Despain Papers: [a novel] - author's ...

Einband: Hardcover

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