Light offsetting from jacket spine onto cloth, overall a very good copy; jacket a little tanned at spine, minor rubbing.
Frontispiece portrait; jacket artwork by the author.
£150
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Autobiography of the key founder of the Vorticist movement.
In stock
Light offsetting from jacket spine onto cloth, overall a very good copy; jacket a little tanned at spine, minor rubbing.
Frontispiece portrait; jacket artwork by the author.
Modern Literature
London, Macdonald, [1943].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8/6.
A light-hearted book. If you not like mean people, you will not be discouraged by the fate which overtakes the characters... (jacket blurb)
Modern Literature
London, Heinemann, 1927.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A collection of short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Edna Ferber, famously author of So Big, Show Boat and Giant. The jacket with its 'vignette' illustrations is definitely uncommon, and in our opinion more attractive than the first US equivalent.
Modern Literature
London, Bodley Head, 1923.First edition. 8vo. 8pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, without price.Great jacket artwork by Canadian–British illustrator and commercial artist Austin Cooper (not the car).
Modern Literature
First edition.
London. Neville Spearman, 1957
A well regarded collection of short stories mainly set in the American South and most of them among poor people. The short story that gives the book refers to statues popular in the Jim Crow-era Southern United States, depicting grotesque minstrel-like characters.
Modern Literature
First edition.
London. Philip Allan, 1925
Anthology covering amongst other things murders, mutinies, maroonings and other tales of horror on the high seas. Scarce in jacket.