The Next Volume.
by WHISTLER, Rex (illustrates). JAMES, Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The James Press, London., 1932 [i.e. 1933]. First edition. Quarto. pp viii, 84, [2]. Four full-page black and white drawings, title-page and numerous headpieces and tailpieces by Rex Whistler; this is some of his best illustrative work. Cream buckram covers decorated with clusters of gilt stars. Top edge gilt. Out of a total edition of 525 numbered copies this is one of 500 printed on pure-rag machine-made paper. Scarce: according to a note which James supplies in the second edition of 1939 only a sixth of the copies of the first edition were actually bound. James was unhappy with the poem "By the Grave of Shelley" which he later rewrote. On the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of the garden historian Alan Charles Corbet Gore.Faint ownership inscription (not Gore's) on front free endpaper. Endpapers a bit spotted. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WHISTLER013392
- Title
- The Next Volume.
- Author
- WHISTLER, Rex (illustrates). JAMES, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The James Press, London.
- Date Published
- 1932 [i.e. 1933]
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Tail
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- Quarto
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