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Along The Road Notes and Essays of a Tourist

1925rif. 403-3379New York: George H. Doran 1925. Very Good in the publisher's brown paper-covered boards half-bound in ivory vellum. Burgundy leather spine-label gilt-stamped. Top-edge gilt. 266pps. Neither the rare dustjacket nor the slipcase are present. There is modest sunning and wear in the area of the spine. The boards have light touches of soiling. Internally there is some browning to the endpapers and a previous owner's unassuming namestamp is near the top of the ffep and again on the rear pastedown; there is a spot of browning also on pgs 178-179 from where a newspaper clipping had been laid in. The binding is slightly brittle though sound with all pages intact. Other than the aforementioned minor flaw to page 178 the text is in excellent clean condition. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Huxley on a limitation page. ".Some people travel on business some in search of health. But it is neither the sickly nor the men of affairs who fill the Grand Hotels and the pockets of their proprietors. It is those who travel 'for pleasure' as the phrase goes. What Epicurus who never travelled except when he was banished sought in his own garden our tourists seek abroad. And do they find their happiness Those who freqeuent the places where they resort must often find this question with a tentative answer in the negative fairly forced upon them. For tourists are in the main a very gloomy-looking tribe. I have seen much brighter faces at a funeral than in the Piazza of St. Mark's. Only when they can band together and pretend for a brief precarious hour that they are at home do the majority of tourists look really happy. One wonders why they come abroad. The face is that very few travellers really like travelling. If they go to the trouble and expense of travelling it is not so much from curiosity for fun or because they like to see things beautiful and strange as out of a kind of snobbery. People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. To have been to certain spots on the earth's surface is socially correct; and having been there one is superior to those who have not." -- from the quite witty and splendid opening. Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision photos can be emailed upon request. SIGNED by the Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. George H. Doran Hardcover

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ALL THE KING'S MEN. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. TYPESCRIPT

1925rif. C106400London: Privately Printed 1925. Original Publisher's Copy. Paperback . Very Good. Original Publisher's Copy 4to. pp 27 26 & 19 typed recto only in blue and red type with a few handwritten corrections one being to the title itself where the typed word 'horses has been changed in ink to 'men.' Address on label at rear of the London typing agency Ethel Christian Southampton Street WC2 with a handwritten date possibly 1925. Loose typed sheets in beige folder with red linen tape spine and small red typed title label and the blind stamp of Ethel Christian. Play set amongst upper-class types at Eyton Manor in a hot summer with a country party cricket a butler romantic elements some criminal elements mention of a safe and a break -in. Probably never performed. Major George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West 1874Ã1951 was a British Army officer author and prominent society figurebest remembered for his 1930 memoir Edwardian Hey-Days: Or A Little About a Lot of Things and his high-profile marriages to Lady Randolph Churchill and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Life. .Career: Served as a British Army officer. He went on to work as a financial consultant but suffered severe financial difficulties and was declared bankrupt in 1916 before later repaying his debts. Major Works Edwardian Hey-Days 1930: An entertaining anecdotal memoir of high-society life notable figures and his own experiences in early 20th-century Britain. Barbara Huxley his co-writer is not traceable and not mentioned in Eileen Quelch's biography of Cornwallis-West 'Perfect Darling.' Ethel Christian's tyewriting agency was widely advertised in literary annuals as ""The Smartest in London"" with high-profile endorsements from prominent contemporary writers. They offered private dictation rooms and on-demand stenographers available by the hour day or week. Very good. Slight edgewear. Privately Printed, paperback

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