![]() Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. : Borrobil: 1946 Jonathan Cape hardback 1st edition 2nd impression very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Author: William Croft Dickinson Author Record 20183 Legal Name: Dickinson, William Croft Birthplace: Leicester, Leicestershire. This tale of hobgoblins and dragons is his first work of fiction. William Croft Dickinson was a leading scholar of Scottish history who also wrote children's fantasy novels and ghost stories. Complete with the good only original illustrated dustwrapper which has loss to the spine tips, tears and chips with associated creasing to the edges, the front flap presumable has been repaired with multiple pieces of tape at the fold. ![]() ![]() The contents, with a contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities of the cloth a touch rubbed, the top corners with very minor bumping. Borrobil was first published in 1944 and this is the first paperback edition published in 1964. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and black and white in-text drawings throughout by John Morton-Sale. William Croft Dickinson (28 August 18) was an English historian, a leading expert in the history of early modern Scotland and an author of both childrens fiction and adult ghost stories. ![]() Original blue cloth with titles in black to the spine and a motif in black to the upper board, in dustwrapper. ![]()
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