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Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A nearly pristine copy with uncut leaves. [2], 3-25, [1] pp. Small 8vo, mauve paper over boards with purple printed title within large fleur-de-lis pattern, with matching endpapers and DJ. Hand numbed and signed copy number copy no. 255.....
Newman Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 172pp. 12mo, sewn binding in green cloth-effect paper over boards. Very clean, fresh copy; DJ price clipped. 'Sketches of a Giant of Letters in the Full Flood of Active Manhood.'.
Sheed & Ward, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Firt American Edition. 185pp. 12mo, sewn binding in blue cloth. Some very trivial wear to the tips, clean and fresh otherwise; DJ chipped at fore head.
Hollis & Carter, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing. x, 181pp + frontispiece portrait. Sewn binding in red cloth, navy topstain. Bookseller's ticket to FFEP 'The Belize Bookshop SPCK'. Offsetting to endpapers, very clean and fresh otherwise. DJ chipped at spine head, price clipped.
Sheed & Ward, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. vi, 218pp. Purple cloth, silver gilt spine lettering. Bookseller's ticket and pencil notations to RPEP, spine a bit faded, some light foxing. Sound, clean copy. Notable contributions include 'The Man who Tried to Convert the Pope' by Ronald Knox and 'The Myth of.....
