Search Results: Park by John Gray

[Sheed & Ward], 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (small). Slight sunning and fading to spine; slight soiling and rubbing to covers (cloth/boards; chiefly to extremities; very slight traces of dampstaining); slight bumping to upper right corner of upper cover (with consequent creasing, etc); slight internal browning to edges. [6], 128, [1] pages + plate. Historical fantasy and grotesquerie involving the noted African explorer Mungo Park, by the noted English canon (one of the possible candidates for the title character of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'). BMC, volume 10, page 1166, column 65. One of 250 copies (the entire edition), printed by Rene Hague and Eric Gill at Pigotts, near Hughenden, Buckminstershire, England, April 1932; 'Published for the author by Sheed & Ward' (colophon); with Tegetmeier's copperplate etching printed by Collins and Dear, London. Bound in red-brown cloth over light gray boards, gilt-stamped spine, plain… Read More