Mission for Oliver hashish Bookplate of Evelyn Ansell

Bookplate of Evelyn Ansell

Hardback with the excellent dust jacket

A catalogue of Rodin drawings and design held at the Rodin Museum in Paris

spine slightly sun bleached

but at the beginning of each section

Mission for Oliver hashish Bookplate of Evelyn AnsellLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1953. An adventure story set in 1805 about a drummer boy in the British Army sailing on a troopship to Sicily. With his cousin Polly also on the boat the adventures really start. First edition. Seven b w text illustrations and one in colour as the frontispiece. 190 pages. Top of text block stained red as issued. Back of jacket well browned, internally super clean and bright with owner's inked name and date 1955 to first front