London: Third Edition. Crown octavo. 304 pages plus 40pp. catalogue & index. Red cloth with elaborate cover illustration in gilt, black and green. Spine decorated in like manner. Both are clear and unworn. Illustrated in black and white by H.J.A. Miles. The b/W illustrations are by H.J.A. Miles occasionally in text an full page title and tissue-guarded frontispiece. Condition: Round offset from removed price at top of free endpaper. Shallow stain at ourter edges of rear endpapers only. Faint stain on fore-edge, but text is perfectly clean. Front hinge VERY slightly cracked. VERY faint light rub at base of rear board. Spine ends VERY mildly bent, but the delightful, gilt embellished illustrated spine and front cover are bright, unworn and unfaded. London/ New York: Special Edition-#34/100. Signed by author. 304pp. Marbled boards quarter-bound in gilt-stamped vellum. TEG. Foreward by John Galsworthy. Garnett, English critic, essayist and dramatist, succeeded his father as Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Influential in the world of letters, he advised, encouraged and helped publicize such writers as Joseph Conrad, D.H.Lawrence & John Galsworthy. Besides Garnett's original writings, he edited Charles M. Doughty's ARABIA DESERTA and compiled an anthology of W. H. Huson. He also edited volumes of letters of Conrad and Galsworthy. Galsworthy called him "one of the greatest of English critics." The family talent did not end there. His wife was famous for her translations into English such Russian writers, as Tolstoy and Turgeniev. Their son David, was a novelist of merit. In addition to Jeanne..are the plays-The Feud, The Breaking Point and Lords and Masters. The Introduction contains a series of letters by E.M. Forster and Joseph Conrad, among others. The Introduction addresses the censorship of one of the plays-The Breaking Point. CONDITION: Vellum slightly discolored. Minute corner wear. Else very good. New York: Full green leather over very thick boards. Spine faded to lighter green. 8vo, 493pp. Eleven original etchings by Flameng. Light foxing on a few leaves and 23 black leaves at rear. Slight joint wear, else fine. Priced thus because of binding. Chinese cabinet, bottom shelf.
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