** Superb Copy ** Walter Wilkinson Puppets Through America in D/J 1st/1st 1938

Author: Walter Wilkinson

Title:  Puppets Through America 

Publication:  First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By Geoffrey Bles London 1938…………(See Pictures) 

Condition and Status of The Book and Dust-Jacket: 

This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in blue cloth with black title lettering to spine in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears along the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Price clipped and this copy has no former names present.Maps as endpapers and pastedowns and to the fore-edge of the book.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness.Uncommon title in original dust-jacket and especially in this condition.Walter Wilkinson wrote and had published a series of eight books about his travels with his puppet show in England and Scotland, Wales and America.He built a barrow which converted into the theatre which he would erect on village greens, in schools or wherever he could find an audience. He carried his tent on his barrow and spent the summers camping in the countryside. He was a popular author in the 1930s and 1940s, receiving positive reviews from the likes of D. H. Lawrence, J. B. Priestley and other contemporary critics.He illustrated the end papers and dust jackets of his books himself with annotated maps,8vo 248pp First Edition 1st Impression [1938] 

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