A Persian Critic: [essays]. [With an introduction by Colin Hurry]

Hesketh PEARSON

Published by London: Chapman & Dodd, 1923

About this Item

Spine slightly darkened, free endpapers mildly embrowned. The author's second book, inscribed by him, "To my own darling wife from her ever-loving husband Hesketh. Dec: 1923"; from the library of his literary executor, Sir Michael Holroyd. 1p. publisher's advertisements at end. Essays purporting to be literary conversations, in Kermanshah in 1918, with a local reader, "a wealthy man who lived the life of a student and a recluse", named Bahram. They discuss Dickens, Shakespeare, Shaw, Thackeray, Galsworthy, H.G. Wells, Chesterton. Belloc, Oscar Wilde and R.L. Stevenson.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Persian Critic: [essays]. [With an introduction by Colin Hurry]
• Publisher: London: Chapman & Dodd
• Publication Date: 1923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First World War