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Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. First edition thus. Octavo. xx, 423, (3)pp. Half black cloth, spine ruled & lettered in gilt, over marbled boards. House in publisher's matching marbled paper slipcase with off-white spine label lettered in black. Illustrated with a title page vignette in brown and 16 pages of color plates. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), signed on the limitation leaf by the artist Edward Adizzone and the book's designer-printer Joseph Blumenthal. Slipcase with minor rubbing at extremities, otherwise a fine copy. Contents: The boarding house -- Horatio Sparkins -- The Bloomsbury christening -- Mr. Minns and his cousin -- Nobody's story -- Going into society -- Somebody's luggage -- Mrs. Lirriper's lodgings -- Mrs. Lirriper's legacy -- Dr. Marigold -- Mugby Junction -- "Births. Mrs. Meek, of a son" -- The lamplighter -- To be read at dusk -- Hunted down -- George Silverman's explanation.…