JOHN UPDIKE. Felix Mendelssohn and Warren Chappell. — Bottom's Dream. Adapted from William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by John Updike with music by Felix Mendelssohn and illustrations by Warren Chappell.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim landscape 8vo. Unpaginated [31 pages of printed text]. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a brown-stamped illustration to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a title page decoration, six full-page colour plates and various colour and black and white drawings in the text. A touch of light marking to the cloth margins, and a small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the margin of three adjacent text leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly marked and edge-worn but with so significant loss. A handsome production, seemingly not published in the UK., Very Good, Very Good