EVOE. [KNOX (Edmund Valpy)]. DENNYS (Joyce). - Lot 168

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EVOE. [KNOX (Edmund Valpy)]. DENNYS (Joyce). - Lot 168
EVOE. [KNOX (Edmund Valpy)]. DENNYS (Joyce). A Winter Sports Alphabet Pictures by Joyce Dennys. Verses by "Evoe". John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. London. 1926. Made and printed in Great Britain by Geo. Gibbons & Company. Art printers. Leicester & London. In-4 (27.3 x 18.5 cm). 61 pp. blue cloth spine, red, black and yellow lithographed boards, ochre background, skater on the first, man knocked down by a sled at the foot of the second. Humorous primer on the joys of winter sports. One double page per letter. Twenty-six lithographs, on cream background, in yellow, black and white. Fine clear line drawings by British illustrator Joyce Dennys (1893-1991). Opposite, text in verse, by poet and satirical writer Edmund George Valpy Knox (1881-1971), also illustrated with small drawings. A for the Wild Anticipation to Z is the Zealot's Slumber. Unique edition very well preserved.
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