Speculative Dialogues.

LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. [J.W.Haines].

Published by Martin Secker, London, 1913

About this Item

First edition (first printing) of this collection of eight dialogues, published the year after Abercrombie relocated to the Gloucestershire village of Dymock. This copy from the library of 'Friend to the Poets' John Wilton Haines, with his signature and address details pencilled to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 203pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Second state binding of brown cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped black-lettered paper spine label, and with the publisher's brown top edge stain. Cloth lightly rubbed at several extremities. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. Fore- and bottom edges spotted, with some further spotting to twenty or so preliminary leaves, and sporadically thereafter. A good, spound copy. Eight dialogues: 'Famine and Pestilence', 'Minos and a Ghost', 'A Beggar and His Dog', 'Earth and a Crowd', 'Lust and Love', 'Science and the World', 'Philosophy and the Angel', and 'Time and Eternity'. Cooper 12. Seller Inventory # BC17143

Bibliographic Details

Title: Speculative Dialogues.

Publisher: Martin Secker, London

Publication Date: 1913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition