A delightful early edition with illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell
with his bookplate laid down to front endpaper
Doré (le lion subjugué par la petite Mitaine)
Barstow has also signed his name on the titlepage in same pen
London: printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for J Sharpe and sold by W Suttaby Stationers' Court Ludgate Street
A Room in Chelsea Square Design A delightful early edition withLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1958. A novel of gay London, published anonymously. First Edition, first printing. Crown 8vo. pp 207. Original chequered red and black cloth boards, spine lettered in white. With the excellent, unclipped, dust jacket by Hans Tisdall, rubbed at head of the spine and slightly sunned, with a short, closed tear at top edge of the back panel. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A VG+ copy. This uncommon novel was