THE SHORT STORY

by Barry Pain

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Martin Secker, 1916 . Small octavo, pp. 1-7 7-63 64: printer's imprint , original black cloth, printed paper label on spine. First edition. An idiosyncratic essay by a writer who was a fine practitioner of the form himself. Part of a series of a dozen or so short books the publisher commissioned dealing with various literary genres and forms. Some faint damp staining to cloth, especially on spine panel,

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