SIMPLE SIMON: HIS ADVENTURES IN THE THISTLE PATCH

by Lyons, Neil

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. New York: John Lane Company. Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1914. Octavo, eight inserted plates with illustrations by G. E. Peto, original red cloth stamped in gold and blind, top edge stained red. First edition. A comic novel featuring the Honeyballs, who live in the fictional town of Broxbury, which supplies all England with ironmongery and all India with Englishmen. Lyons' thirteen

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