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Chadwick, Paxton
Life Histories
Publisher: Penguin Collectors Society, London;
Date of Publication: 1995
Stock Code: 12202
First Edition - one of only 1000 copies. Landscape octavo, pp., [32], paginated to include covers. Illustrated throughout. Stapled pictorial card wraps. Complete with matching format “The Life History of Life Histories” by Steve Hare, pp. 12, an extended version of an article first published in July 1995 in “Antiquarian Book Monthly”. Clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions, both book and accompanying booklet. Fine copies. Puffin Picture Book 116. Paxton Chadwick (1903-1961) designed three Puffin Picture Books during his lifetime but this, his planned fourth, was ultimately published to celebrate Penguin Books’ 60th anniversary; the original lithographic plates having survived. Scarce. £50.00