Description
Boon, Nancy; Thomas C.B. Boon (Intro.). Tripping Lightly. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Mortimer Place Books, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. pp. xii, 256. 8vo. Green hardcovers, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the subject, and accompanied with many black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Neat ink name, and personal bookplte affixed to ffep else, no detectable flaws. Contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. Hardcover. (#3172) $25.00
![The splendid wood-cut frontispiece to the 1921 (and only) printing of “Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts”. Full description below.
Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts [SIGNED] ; This Play was first Acted by the Reandean Company at the Shaftesbury Theatre London, November 1921.
Dane, Clemence [pseudonym for Winifred Ashton, 1888-1965].
Published: London: William Heinemann, N.D. [Circa 1921]. First Edition. pp. x, 133. Slim 4to., measuring 20 x 26 cm. Quater black cloth over illustrated paper boards, printed label on the spine, untrimmed pages edges (with one or two leaves still remaining uncut from the publisher). Striking wood-cut frontispiece depicting Shakespeare signed G.W.H., accompanied with one additional wood-cut illustration. Boldly signed in ink by the author to the limitation page / colophon. Light edgewear, light scuffs to the spine label, very faint traces of scattered foxing to the upper-margin of a few leaves otherwise the text-block remains overwhelmingly bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound biding. A thoroughly lovely edition. Hardcover.
“This Edition, printed on hand-made paper, numbered and signed by the Author, is limited to two hundred and fifty copies for sale, and twenty-five copies for presentation, of which this is No. 140.” (#6975)](https://blacksbooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
