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Reid, Forrest.
The Retreat or The Machinations of Henry.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1936
Stock Code: 12360
First Edition. Octavo, pp. 299, [1]. Publishers’ crimson cloth with gilt titles to spine in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly toned to edge, with bruised corners. Scattered light foxing, mainly to text-block edge and early leaves; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket toned to rear panel with chips and nicks to peripheries A very good copy in like jacket. Features Tom, the principal character from “Uncle Stephen”, but set several years earlier in a short period covering a few weeks at school and on his holidays; Henry whose machinations are mentioned in the title, is a cat... £250.00