The Long Goodbye Exploration & Travel The "Kwadraat-Blad"

The "Kwadraat-Blad"

Some light soiling to covers

Hardback exhibition catalogue for the show of 42 examples of Japanese cloisonné enamelled vases

the books was adapted by Graham White for BBC Radio 4 featuring Andrew Scott as Maitland

In the Peake designed dust-jacket

The Long Goodbye Exploration & Travel The "Kwadraat-Blad"London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First Edition, first printing, preceding the American edition by four months. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with silver title lettering to spine. With the striking dust jacket, by Fritz Wegner, showing a naked woman sprawled face down on a bed with a bottle of wine and two glasses on the bedside table. Jacket is well rubbed at head of the spine, much less so at the foot, also rubbed along top edge joint and corner