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1948 Dreamers of Dreams
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, first impression.
Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, "To Charlie from his affectionate brother the author - George Holbrook Jackson, March, 1948, Mill Hill". Author's pencil correction to page 110.
In the original unclipped dust wrapper.
This work presents an examination of the lives and thought of six great men of the nineteenth century: Carlyle, Ruskin, William Morris, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. A compelling study on the rise and fall of nineteenth century idealism.
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.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with loss to the head of the spine. Tidemark to the rear wrap, smaller to the front wrap. Spine is sunned. Pencil to the head of the front wrap. Light handling marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Fine
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