The Rescue by Edward Sackville-West (Illustrated by Henry Moore) (1943)

First edition in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Limited to 850 copies on hand-made paper, this being number 754. This book is the text of the radio melodrama based on the Odyssey, which, with an orchestral score by Benjamin Britten, was produced by the BBC in Novermber 1943. Illustrated in line and colour by Henry Moore. Condition: Blue cloth boards faintly sunned along extremities. A discreet tape repair on inner side of the dust-wrapper’s top edge. Some light taning to prelims. Pages untrimmed.