Lyons a Lbert Michael Neil (5 results)

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-234 [235] [236: blank], original maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. A retrospective collection of twenty-one stories from earlier collections, selected, with 2-page introductory note, by series editor F. H. Pritchard. Lyons was a friend and biographer of Robert Blatchford, another writer and influential Socialist, and one of the founders of the Labour Party. Lyons' "thirteen volumes of fiction 1902-1937 are light stuff; the best known is COTTAGE PIE (1911)." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 252. Comic stories of the working class. A fine copy. (#114165).

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [7-8] 9-343 [344: blank] 1-8: ads, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges trimmed, top edge not stained. First edition, probably a later issue binding. Comic linked stories set among the London working class, told in a rambling, bantering tone by the narrator, an educated writer. Lyons was a friend and biographer of Robert Blatchford, another writer and influential Socialist, and one of the founders of the Labour Party. Lyons' "thirteen volumes of fiction 1902-1937 are light stuff; the best known is COTTAGE PIE (1911)." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 252. A very good copy. (#114164).

Small octavo, original blue cloth. First edition. Forty-four short comic stories set among the British working class. Lyons' "thirteen volumes of fiction 1902-1937 are light stuff; the best known is COTTAGE PIE (1911)." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 252. Lyons was a friend and biographer of Robert Blatchford, another writer and influential Socialist, and one of the founders of the Labour Party. A tight, clean, very good copy. (#114170).

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 volumes of fiction 1902-1937 are light stuff; the best known is COTTAGE PIE (1911)." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 252. Lyons was a friend and biographer of Robert Blatchford, a fellow writer and influential Socialist, and one of the founders of the Labour Party. A bit of mild foxing to fore-edge of text block, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#119355).

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-362 [363-378: ads], original decorated gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark green. First edition. Forty-two short comic stories about the British working class, set partly in Buckinghamshire but mostly in Sussex. Lyons' "thirteen volumes of fiction 1902-1937 are light stuff; the best known is COTTAGE PIE (1911)." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 252. Lyons was a friend and biographer of Robert Blatchford, another writer and influential Socialist, and one of the founders of the Labour Party. A bright, clean, very good copy. (#114169).