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London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 252pp, [1]; illustrated throughout. Publisher's orange illustrated and price-clipped dust jacket. Boards full bound in green and tan pictorial- and title-printed cloth; gilt stamped at spine. Top edge stained light brown. Illustrated family tree endsheets. Dust jacket lightly scuffed and soiled with toning and bumping to margins and spine ends. Minor water staining to tail of spine; Verso toned with ink from printing bleeding through. Board corners and spine ends bumped with minor soiling to panels and lightly shelfworn. Page edges lightly scratched and top corner of first free endsheet clipped. Pages otherwise unblemished. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket.

A collection of stories detailing a near 200-year line of the foolish, fantastical, and morose Vanbrugh family.