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London: Duckworth & Co., (1923). First edition, trade issue. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Nash. Gray paper boards printed in black; plain black cloth spine; 126 pages plus plates. Good only with cloth rubbed at spine ends, boards exposed at tips, scattered foxing, endpapers darkened, and lacking dust jacket. An interesting copy nonetheless, if you like a little evidence of past life in your books. There are 3 undated London Times news clippings pasted in at front. The first, "Account Closed?" by Oliver Edwards, refers to Ford as a "bounder" and accuses him of trading off the fame of his friend Joseph Conrad but goes on to defend his work. The other two are editorial responses. And 2 gift inscriptions - one from Arthur Quick to translator A. G. Shirreff, the other from Shirreff to writer and BBC producer Lance Sieveking (a few of his own books include illustrations by Nash). From the collection of Ford scholar Thomas C. Moser with his 1976 letter requesting purchase of the book from a…
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MISTER BOSPHORUS AND THE MUSES: Or, A Short History of Poetry in Britain; Variety Entertainment in Four Acts
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Mister Bosphorus and the Muses, or a Short History of Poetry in Britain. Variety Entertainment in Four Acts. Words by Ford Madox Ford ..
by FORD, Ford Madox (Ford Madox HUEFFER)
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London: Duckworth & Co, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Duckworth & Co., 1923. Small quarto, 126 pages with 8 illustrations (4 full-page) plus 3 full-page illustrations (and the front cover artwork) by Paul Nash. Quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards (a little unevenly tanned, slightly rubbed along some edges, and lightly scored at the rear); free endpapers tanned; an excellent copy. The balance of the text on the title reads 'Music by several popular composers, with harlequinade, transformation scene, cinematograph effects, and many other novelties, as well as old and tried favourites. Decorated with designs engraved on wood by Paul Nash'.
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MISTER BOSPHORUS AND THE MUSES. Or, A Short History of Poetry in Britain: Variety Entertainment in Four Acts. With Harlequinade, Transformation Scene, Cinematograph Effects, and Many Other Novelties, as well as Old and Tried Favourites.
by FORD, Ford Madox. Illustrated by NASH, Paul.
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London: Duckworth & Co., 1923. . First edition, 4to., pp.126, cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, 11 wood-engraved plates by Paul Nash, as well as front cover illustration; partial toning and foxing to endpapers and half title, lower corners of boards lightly bumped, with light toning to margins of boards, internally clean, a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is toned, with light chipping to the extremities, slight loss at head and foot of spine, and with 4cm closed tear to front of jacket (not affecting the plate).
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