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Lord Dunsany [Plunkett, Edward].
My Talks With Dean Spanley.
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1936
Stock Code: 11903
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. vi, 137, [1]. Frontispiece illustration by S. H. Sime. Publishers’ forest green cloth with gilt titles to spine in price-clipped cream pictorial dust-jacket. A very good book in a very good dust-jacket, with the armorial bookplate of Sir Clarence Henry Kennett Marten, Provost of Eton and private tutor to Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) to front paste-down. Dust-jacket a little surface soiled & toned, with nicks, creases and tiny patches of loss to edges. Irish author Lord Dunsany’s humorous novella of an alcohol-loving clergyman who believes he is the reincarnation of a dog. One of his best-known works following a critically acclaimed film adaptation of 2008 starring Sam O’Neill and Peter O’Toole. £150.00