Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L’Engle in a first state dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, cloth boards with mild fading at the edges, strong title gilt on a straight spine, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface wear and heavy edge wear, chips and gaps. First state jacket without the Newbery badge and the $15.50 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Pianist Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in her seventies and retired, discovers new meaning in life when she agrees to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
