Housman (Laurence) Ploughshare and Pruninghook.
£150
Ten lectures on social subjects
London, Swarthmore Press, 1919.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with white spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
An excellent first edition of this series of essays by the Victorian author, playwright and illustrator Laurence Housman, author of A Farm in Fairyland (1894) and illustrator of his sister’s novella The Were-Wolf (1896). Scarce in jacket.
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An excellent copy, in VG+ jacket with only minor chipping to spine ends.
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