The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers with colour frontispiece and line drawings by Charles Mozley

Description

Title: The Riddle of the Sands with colour …

Publisher: Dent/Dutton, London and New York

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Very good hardback copy with dust jacket now protected in removable cover. Very Good. Illustrated Edition. New York/London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd/E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., (1970). First edition thus, first printing. Book design by Alexander H. Williamson. Four detailed maps including a double-page spread. Illustrated with a color-plate frontispiece and twenty-eight pen-and-ink drawings by Charles Mozley, painter, exhibited artist, prolific poster and mural artist and book illustrator renowned for his art in the Limited Editions Club publications. Mozley drew on his wealth of experience as a Lieutenant-Colonel, working as a painter, wartime conflict sketcher, and intelligence camouflage designer in WWII, for these evocative illustrations. Adapted to the 1979 British spy thriller starring Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale. Collector’s Item