BRET HARTE — Colonel Starbottle's Client, and Some other People

London, Chatto & Windus. 9999, Reprint. Cloth. Ill.: Fred Barnard. Book, No date, but gift inscription dated 1925 'To "Lancelot Blunden" in memory of 2/5/1925, with Hubert at Plymouth' The poet Edmund Blunden had a brother called Lancelot, but since the name is in inverted commas, I have no idea whether there is any connection. Green cloth, 307 pages, b/w frontis by Fred Barnard. Endpapers brown, cloth partly faded and damaged at ends of spine, a few pages stained. Reading copy. This is NOT a signed copy. Fair/No Jacket.