STEPHENS, Henry Pottinger, & Ernest Wells, as "Pot and Swears".

£550 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Scarlet City. First edition of this uncommon novel, a presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper to notable book collector Samuel Garcia Asher (c. 1868-1938) "To Dear old Sam, from his old pal 'Swears' Ernest Wells, 'Pot' H. P. Stephens"; and with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown.Uncommon: WorldCat locates only nine copies in the US and four in the UK (BL, Cambridge, NLS, Dublin); WorldCat adds two more copies (Oxford, London Library).

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