Smith Cedric Ellsworth Compiler (1 results)
Published by Edwin Valentine Mitchell, Hartford, Connecticut:, 1928
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Edition Thus. Hartford, Connecticut:: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1928. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is a little finger soiled and mildly darkened at the spine. NO owner's name or bookplate. Text is clean and crisp. NO foxing. NO underl…ining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. The frontispiece by Max Beerbohm features THE YELLOW DWARF, printed in bright yellow and black. There are 27 other full-page illustrations, including 14 by Aubrey Beardsley. Other artists included are Muirhead Bone, Laurence Housman, Joseph Pennell and John Singer Sargent. Among the authors represented are Arthur Symons, John Buchan, Richard le Gallienne, John Davidson, George Gissing, Richard Garnett, Max Beerbohm, W. B. Yeats, Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Arthur Waugh, Austin Dobson, and H.G. Wells. Bound in the original yellow cloth, decorated with Beardsley art. The cover is quite handsome -- and still has much of its new book gloss. The yellow and black Dust Jacket design matches the pictorial cover. From the Jacket: "A one volume selection of the best material contained in the thirteen volumes of the famous quarterly magazine, THE YELLOW BOOK, which made literary and artistic history in the eighteen-nineties.". First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. (vi), 414pp.