Description: This is the 1940 *first and only edition* of EN ROUTE 1919-1939 *signed by author H(Bert) E A Platt. Metric musings on life and love during the years spanning two world wars … Hardback, around five inches by 7.5 tall, is bound in its publisher's original cloth. Tilting is all original gilt. First edition printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and sold by B Blackwell, Oxford, 1940. Signed by the author in ink to blank uncut preliminary page. Free from further permanent inscription and markings to the text. Although interior condition is overall very good, because this original letterpress book is old, it displays minor signs of age — such as occasional discolouration to old paper — consistent with a printed object of this vintage. All 65 pp main text are complete and otherwise correct. All page edges deckled / hand cut, as originally issued. ¶ Hubert Edmund Arthur Platt (b 1902) — WorldCat lists seven (7) copies only extant. ¶ Your book, anywhere within the UK, is sent to you FREE. Feel free to contact seller with any questions, or if you'd like to examine it in person at a mutually convenient time. Bid with confidence to secure.
Price: 18 GBP
Location: Richmond
End Time: 2025-01-06T20:04:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 24 GBP
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Fiction Subject: Poetry, Theatre & Scripts
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Inscribed
Original/Reproduction: Original
Publisher: Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Year Printed: 1940
Original/Facsimile: Original
