Martin Secker 1919. Hardcover. Good. 1919. Reprinted. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green paper covered boards. Ex libris plate at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping to corners and spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned particularly spine. Title label on spine heavily dulled. Martin Secker hardcover
William Heinemann 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. First Published. 273 pages. No dust jacket. Grey paper covered boards. Rough-cut pages. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. William Heinemann hardcover
New York : Alfred A. Knopf 1920. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A signed copy of Books in General Second Series by Solomon Eagle or J. C. Squire. Solomon Eagle was the pseudonym for J. C. Squire a British writer. This copy is signed J. C. Squire to the front pastedown with a bookplate for Philip Gosse the English Naturalist. This is a first edition copy of the second series of Books in General. The papers are a selection from a series contributed weekly to the New Statesman. Some of the papers include The Descendants of Shakespeare The Diary of Charles Pooter and Thomas Traherne. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart with some light bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Some light fading to the spine and rubbing to the spine label. This copy is signed J. C. Squire to the front pastedown with a bookplate for Philip Gosse. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF 1919 Burgundy cloth boards with printed paper title slip laid to spine 215 x 140 mm approx. 282 pp. First Edition 1919. Essays on books and men of letters. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. The copy offered by us is from the library of Oliver Brett Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett 3rd Viscount Esher with his armorial book plate to the front paste down. Good no d/j Book general shelf wear and soiling and title slip tanned. Book plate as above. No other notable defects. ALFRED A. KNOPF hardcover
Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1922. Hardcover. Good. 1922. Second Edition. 211 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking inscriptions inserts light foxing tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean. Hodder and Stoughton Limited hardcover
Hodder & Stoughton 1922. Hardcover. Good. 1922. Second Edition. 211 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Spine label is tanned. Book has a slight forward lean. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover