First Centipede Press edition. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator and translator. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and illustrated onlay to the upper board, in the Piotr Jablonski illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the black and grey cloth slipcase. Illustrated with six full page colour plates by Piotr Jablonski. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. With the fine original dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase.
Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies (plus 20 copies for distributors), this example is numbered 150 and signed by the illustrator Piotr Jablonski and translator Miroslaw Lipinski in black ink on the colophon. The colophon also contains the facsimile signature of Stefan Grabinski. A collection of 52 stories written by Stefan Grabinski between 1909 and 1930. Translated into English from the original Polish over the course of 30 years by Miroslaw Lipinski, with 'The Tawny Owl' published here for the first time in English.
Stock code: 28640
£1,000