DYKE, Zoë, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm, London, 1949, 8vo, 27 plates, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper beneath her original drawing of a silkworm.

DYKE, Zoë, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm, London, 1949, 8vo, 27 plates, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper beneath her original drawing of a silkworm.

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DYKE, Zo, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm. London: Rockliff, 1949. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and 26 plates, 3 illustrations, one full-page. Original blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket by Arnold Lever with the price of 16'- unclipped (the corners of the jacket clipped, some staining at the edges, the lower wrapper lightly browned). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper beneath her original drawing of a silkworm.

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DYKE, Zoë, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm, London, 1949, 8vo, 27 plates, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper beneath her original drawing of a silkworm.

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