L. P. HARTLEY. — The Eustace and Hilda Trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising 'The Shrimp and the Anemone', [and] 'The Sixth Heaven', [and] 'Eustace and Hilda'.

Putnam & Co. Ltd., London 1944-1947., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'The Shrimp and the Anemone' (1944). First edition. 8vo. 226pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Some discolouration to the cloth at the backstrip ends and one or two other extremities where the dust wrapper is defective. Some spotting to the edges, endpapers, and a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. Printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock, yet still quite a good, bright copy in somewhat tattered non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, dust soiled, nicked and creased with a number of portions of edge-loss. 'The Sixth Heaven' (1946). First edition. 8vo. 234pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth somewhat marked and spotted, with further spotting to the top edge. A good bright copy in somewhat spotted, dust soiled and lightly edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. 'Eustace and Hilda' (1947). First edition. 8vo. 365pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, with some light partial toning to the free endpaper. The backstrip cloth very slightly faded, and with just a trace of offsetting from the dust wrapper design. Contemporary (1949) former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the front pastedown (and obscured by the wrapper flap). Very good in the pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a little toned at the spine and rear panels, with some rubbing and several tiny fractions of loss from the spine ends and several corner tips. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A just about respectable set of probably the author's most celebrated work. The first volume is particularly tricky to unearth nowadays, although certainly the example here is not housed in the finest example of the dust wrapper., Good, Good