Halliday 1874 (6 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided) - "Waterfront Edition Limited To a Thousand Autographed Copies . . ." (limitation statements on dj front flap and upon title page). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Unpaged - approximately 120 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 14cm. Orange dust jacket rubbed with some soiling and staining; spine toned; nicks and short tears at edges. Orange boards with front and rear board illustrations emulating the dj panels. Author's pseudonymous signature "Halliday Witherspoon" on front pastedown along with halo embellishment to figure drawing at center. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. The order/sequence of the book's chapters are reversed as was the author's intent, i.e. book starts with "Yarn 10" and concludes with "Yarn 1." William Herbert Nutter was a reporter for the Boston Journal newspaper with his "Liverpool Jarge" tales being humorous short stories evidently first published as columns "submitted" to the Journal by one Halliday Witherspoon. Philip Hale, author of the Preface which appears at the book's rear, was the Boston Herald's music critic from 1903-1934 with preceding stints at the Boston Post and Boston Journal. The claim of a one thousand copy print run for this 1922 first edition may or may not be an exaggeration (half that number seems far more likely) but the 1933 second edition avows a 100,000 copy run which, of course, is utterly farcical.…

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