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London: Verona Press, 1939. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. First Limited (and First Illustrated) Edition, number 145 of 1200 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on handmade paper. Oversized 8vo: [xii],316,[2, colophon]pp, Illustrated with 16 superb colored lithographs by the French Cubist artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956). Publisher's olive-green and cream patterned cloth, red paper lettering piece gilt to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in orange and black, manuscript inscription to front fly-leaf in elegant hand, stone-colored dust jacket printed in pale olive-green. Without the slipcase. According to Kirkpatrick, "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947." Near Fine or better (spine ends lightly rubbed, page edges spotted) else a crisp, bright copy in Near Fine or better jacket (several light smudges and insignificant pale stains). NCBEL IV 653-654. Kirkpatrick D6. Connolly 40. First edition of…