ZULEIKA DOBSON : OR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY.
by BEERBOHM, Max (Sir Henry Maximilian), 1872-1956 :
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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
London : William Heinemann, 1911. First edition : the variant binding in smooth brown cloth, the spine lettered in upper and lower case. Just 2,150 copies were issued in this form, the remainder being put in a more robust library binding. "A diaphanous novel possessed of a delayed explosive charge that detonates today with surprising power ... the finest, and darkest, kind of satire: as intoxicating as champagne, as addictive as morphine, and as lethal as prussic acid" (Robert McCrum) - "Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect" (Virginia Woolf). Post 8vo (21cm). [viii],350,[ii]pp. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt, and with the publisher's device in blind on lower cover; a few faint marks and minor signs of age and use; mild tanning of endpapers, but overall a very good, sound, and rather better than usual copy. Book-label of a modern Connecticut collector.
Synopsis
Zuleika Dobson is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44292
- Title
- ZULEIKA DOBSON : OR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY.
- Author
- BEERBOHM, Max (Sir Henry Maximilian), 1872-1956 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : William Heinemann, 1911.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Fiction, Oxford
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