The Blue Fox

£75.00

DUNCAN, Ronald (1914-82) | BEATON, Cecil (jacket designed by) | HANSOM, Michael (illustartions by) | VESEY-FITZGERALD, Brian (foreword by) SKU: 20921

London: Museum Press, 1951.

The first of three books collecting Duncan's "Jan's Journal" columns written for the Evening Standard about his life as a farmer in north Devon. The other volumes are 'Jan at the Blue Box' (1952) and 'Jan's Journal' (1953). First Edition. Pale blue cloth boards, gilt title lettering to spine. 202 pages. Decorative endpapers and text illustrations by Hansom. Without inscriptions etc. With the Cecil Beaton designed dust-jacket, which is rubbed at extremities and heavily restored form the inside with paper tape. The head of the blue fox on the front cover is conceived in the form of a pub sign. An