Beau Geste.
Book Description
Deluxe edition, number 931 of 1,000 copies signed by the author, with additional inscription from the author to his own bookplate on front free endpaper; large 8vo; portrait frontispiece, colour and black & white plates, title-page printed in red & black, clipped image of RMS Viceroy of India glued to front pastedown, some minor spotting; original red & blue buckram, printed spine label, spine slightly dulled, top edge gilt, others uncut.
Dealer Notes
The famous tale of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative; the novel is highly regarded for the accuracy of its insight into the notoriously secretive French Foreign Legion pre-1914.
This copy has Wren’s own armorial bookplate, which he has inscribed ‘To Aubrey Baring G, from P.C. Wren in memory of some good smiles on the “Viceroy of India”’. Uncommon additionally inscribed thus.
Provenance: P.C. Wren (bookplate); Aubrey Baring G[ould?] (giftee of inscription from the author).
This copy has Wren’s own armorial bookplate, which he has inscribed ‘To Aubrey Baring G, from P.C. Wren in memory of some good smiles on the “Viceroy of India”’. Uncommon additionally inscribed thus.
Provenance: P.C. Wren (bookplate); Aubrey Baring G[ould?] (giftee of inscription from the author).
Author
WREN, P.C.
Date
1927.
Publisher
London, John Murray,
Illustrator
Helen McKie
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