Rather Like.Some Endeavers to Assume the Mantles of the Great

Jules Castier

Published by Herbert Jenkins / J B Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1920

About this Item

Presumed first edition in publisher's green cloth, titled and ruled in black on spine and cover, and publishers device in black on back cover. Here is a mixed edition; Herbert Jenkins on spine and back cover, but with the Lippincott title page. The author, a Frenchman wrote this collection of parodies of famous British authors while in prison camp during WWI. The Publisher's Note by Herbert Jenkins includes the British author's response to the parodies. Includes George Bernard Shaw, H. Rider Haggard, Conrad, Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Kipling, and many more. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott (1920), 292 pages. Good copy. Darkened spine with wear to spine ends and tips, over opened, and with a small bookstore sticker on front paste down.

Seller Inventory # DA2817

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rather Like.Some Endeavers to Assume the Mantles of the Great
• Publisher: Herbert Jenkins / J B Lippincott, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1920
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good