- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: HJL Books (PBFA), London, United KingdomHJL Books (PBFA)
AbeBooks seller since May 2, 2026
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 205.00
Quantity: 1 available
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INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. A historical novel of eleventh-century Persia which critics compared to Flaubert’s Salammbô. Omar Khayyám is one of the chief protagonists. An obituary mentions a famous work, The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer (London: Grant Richards, 1898), which does not appear to be altogether famous (and has the wrong year of publication), though features an attractive cover design by Macfall in the style of Beardsley, who Macfall counted as a close friend, and whose last book was a spirited defence of the him. Macfall was especially noted art history and criticism; an eight-volume work 'A History of Painting' was published in 1910. This book was published two years before Macfall’s death; it is inscribed nicely to ffep “Mab from Haldane / this first copy 8th September 1926”. The same obituary already found to be erroneous, suggests that Mabel (Plumridge) Macfall was Haldane’s mother; it was in fact his wife (his mother was in fact called Abigail Crawford); Mabel’s attractive bookplate to front paste-down. BOOK: Publisher's patterned card boards over cream cloth spine with green lettering; corners nicked, spine ends pressed, page edges toned.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Three Students
- Author
- MACFALL, Haldane
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, London
- Publication year
- 1926
- Condition
- Very good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
HJL Books (PBFA)
London, United Kingdom
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HJL Books is a London-based specialist in rare 20th-century books, offering a finely curated selected of modern first editions, with a leaning toward the scarce and unusual. Now offering free standard shipping to most countries.
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