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CARY, Joyce.

The Horse's Mouth.

The Horse's Mouth.

Stock Code 115488

London, Michael Joseph, 1944

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First edition of the great wartime novel featuring the adventures of artist Gulley Jimson. Basis for the 1958 Ronald Neame-directed film starring Alec Guinness and Kay Walsh.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; flecking to wartime page stock, light spotting to endpapers, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; publisher's red cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the price-clipped dustjacket by A.E. Barlow, some spotting and light toning, slight rubbing to extremities, else very good.

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