MEN OF LETTERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES: Portrait Medallions from the Life. With critical essays

by Stuart Sherman and a preface by G. F. Hill by Theodore Spicer-Simson

$75 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

New York: William E. Rudge, 1924. First edition, 1/520 copies this #452 . 4to. 133 pp. 29 plates, from the medallion portraits. Subjects include Chesterton, Conrad, Hardy, Housman, Joyce, Masefield, Shaw., Wells, and Yeats, among others. Original white cloth-backed, gilt-stamped tan boards, publisher’s board slipcase top edge taped , light board chemise partly faded and soiled with numbered paper spine label. Fine copy in a defective slipcase. Item

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