Marsh (Richard) Under One Flag
£135
London, John Long, 1906.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-
A collection of 14 stories, among them ‘A Pet of the Ballet,’ ‘Staggers,’ ‘That Foursome,’ ‘Two of a Trade’ and ‘The Thirteen Club,’ opening with the ballet girl Lizzie Emmett, her worn-out shoes and her straitened circumstances, and the arrival of a dapper and opaque stranger. Richard Marsh (1857–1915) was born Richard Bernard Heldmann, and is best known today for his weird horror tale The Beetle (1897).
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Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, some spotting; cloth partially darkened, minor rubbing.
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