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DUNSANY, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 1878-1957). The Fourth Book of Jorkens and Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey. V.p.
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DUNSANY, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 1878-1957). The Fourth Book of Jorkens and Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey. V.p.

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DUNSANY, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 1878-1957). The Fourth Book of Jorkens and Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey. V.p., 1947/1954. Dunsany's fourth and fifth volumes of Jorkens stories, comprising:

The Fourth Book of Jorkens. London: Jarrolds, [1947]. 8vo. 176 pp. Publisher's blue-green cloth in original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.

[And]: Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey. London: Michael Joseph, [1954]. 256 pp. Publisher's blue-green cloth in original unclipped ("12s. 6d.") dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 

These were the last volumes of "Jorkens" narratives published in Dunsany's lifetime, followed posthumously by The Last Book of Jorkens in 2002. 

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Jackets with light toning, soiling, edge wear, paper loss to spine blocks, and rubbing at extremities. Else near fine. 

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