JOHN GRAY. — Park. A Fantastic Story.

Sheed & Ward, London, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 copies printed by Rene Hague and Eric Gill. With an etched copperplate by Denis Tehetmeier. 8vo. 128pp. Quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, lettered in gold at the spine. Two corner tips fractionally rubbed. A single tiny pinprick of spotting to the head of four preliminary leaves, and a tiny blemish to the fore edge margin to two adjacent text leaves. A virtually fine copy, lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper. Handsome bookplate of Desmond Chute to the front pastedown, and a pencilled inscription to the front free endpaper "Desmond from Walter [Shewring?] Christmas 1936". Chute was a close colleague, assistant and "beloved brother" of Eric Gill, and the co-founder of The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, alongside Gill, Joseph Cribb and Hilary Pepler. The inscription to Chute is probably from Walter Shewring, Gill's literary executor. A super association copy of the author's only novel, a surreal futuristic allegory set in a post-industrial paradise., Near Fine, No Jacket