Phillpotts (Eden) Tales of the Tenements

London, John Murray, 1910.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.

Phillpotts’ pre-war Murray collections are considerably scarcer than the interwar Hutchinson volumes: Phillpotts’s staggering productivity (some 250 books) means his individual titles were rarely hoarded, and the early ones simply wore out. Sound copies from this period, jacket or no jacket, turn up far less often than the man’s ubiquity would suggest