THE VERY SHORT MEMORY OF MR. JOSEPH SCORER AND OTHER SEASIDE EXPERIENCES

by John Oxenham, born William Arthur Dunkerley

$50 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

Edinburgh: Geo. A. Morton ... London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Ltd., 1903. Small octavo, original pictorial tan wrappers printed in orange and black. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription on half title page by Oxenham to Mary K. A. Day. Six linked stories with English seaside holiday settings, one a tale of the coast guard saving lives at sea, others criminous. Drawing on the cover by Will Owen, who

• Binding: Wrappers

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