The Village Book (SIGNED COPY) by: Williamson, Henry
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Limited to 504 signed copies, this being no 265. Bound in original publishers quarter vellum, with green cloth boards, vellum dusty, cloth faded. An anthology of the author's writings from 1921 to 1930. The work concerns the history of an unnamed fictional village, and is divided into alternating chapters with different headings. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's familiar owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece and two brief sketches by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some uneven fading to the cloth and a little darkening to the vellum backstrip, as is common with this production.