Knowles (Vernon) Silver Nutmegs
£295
London, Robert Holden, 1927.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Australian writer Knowles’ best work appears in the three books of stories and sketches, The Street of Queer Houses and Other Tales (1925), Here and Otherwhere (1926) and Silver Nutmegs (1927), notable for their humour and satire. Knowles’s work is in the tradition of Richard Garnett and has affinities with the work of Lord Dunsany and Donald Corley, but he affects a more naive and relaxed style than any of these. Uncommon in the jacket.
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Minor spotting to extremities of text-block; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket with edge wear leading to some chips and loss, notably at head of spine and lower fore-corner of upper panel.
Illustrations by Eric Bailey.
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