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1911 Romance and Reality, Essays and Studies
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed
The first edition of this scarce work.
Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate to the front paste down.
A series of literary essays and studies, looking at Utopia, Peterpantheism, readings in Earth, and before dawn, as well as contemporary figures such as H. G. Wells and G. K. Chesterton. Essays include 'Going to Nowhere', 'Between Waking and Awake', 'Hedgerows', 'Immortal Russia', and more.
By the journalist, writer, and publisher George Holbrook Jackson. A noted journalist who worked for numerous magazines during his career, Jackson is known as being one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. He founded in the Flying Fame Press alongside Ralph Hodgson and Claud Lovat Fraser, and had a long association with English small presses.
Four pages of adverts to the rear.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some marks to the cloth. Spine is faded. Light rubbing to the spine. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Author's bookplate to his front paste down, and signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the occasional scattered spot.
Good
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