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The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced by Walter Allen.

London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].

8vo, pp. 184; blue publisher’s cloth, dustjacket with a design by Michael Ayrton; a fine copy in a near-fine dust-jacket; bookplate of D.G. Bridson.

£50

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US $66  €59

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Second (but first published) edition, regular copy.

Pound & Grover A22b; Morrow & Lafourcade A47b.

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