Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £450 |
BOND, Michael (1926-2017). Here Comes Thursday! London: George G. Harrap, 1966. 8vo (213 x 140mm). Half title, illustrations on title and in the text, some full-page, by Daphne Bowles. Original blue pictorial cloth, dust-jacket with price of "15/- net" unclipped. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST "THURSDAY" BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Nina, with love and good wishes, Michael." With 3 others by the same author, namely Thursday Rides Again (London, 1968), Thursday Ahoy! (London, 1969) and Thursday in Paris (London, 1971), all FIRST EDITIONS in dust-jackets (dust-jacket of "Thursday in Paris" lacking most of backstrip), all but the last PRESENTATION COPIES to Nina Froud. Provenance: The Property of the late Tamara Lo. (4)