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Hancock, Norman.
An Innocent Grows Up. [Inscribed by the author]
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons, London;
Date of Publication: 1947
Stock Code: 14877
First edition. Octavo, pp., vii, 181. Dust-jacket and double page colour frontispiece and title page lithograph beautifully illustrated by John Piper. Publisher’s brick red cloth with gilt title to spine in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket. Top edge red. Inscribed to half-title by the author, ‘With kindest regards/ Norman Hancock/ July 1964. Some toning and offsetting to half-title, lacking front free endpaper. Unobtrusive edgewear to dust-jacket spine tips. An autobiographical story of a young man’s childhood and coming of age at the start of the 20th century. £30.00