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Chatto & Windus, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. Third Impression . 222 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Rough-cut pages. Heavy foxing and moderate tanning to pages. Some moderate tanning to pastedowns and free endpapers with slight staining to gutters. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining overall. Spine has moderate tanning with slight fraying and crushing to ends.

The Library Press, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Very slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Tear to cloth to top edge of rear board.

Chatto and Windus, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Book has a bit of edge wear and is slightly cocked otherwise good.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. 222pp Five short plays from the Phoenix Library series. 1st Phoenix paperback. Blue cloth, gilt. Fine. 12mo.

UK: The Library Press. Good. Hardcover. pp 222 .

Chatto and Windus, 1928. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. The Phoenix Library. Hardcover. pp. 265 + 6 pages of advertisements. Small 8vo., measuring 5" x 7". Teal cloth over boards with gilt lettering, and ornaments to spine. Light edgewear, some scuffing to the margin of the front board. Contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy from the library of Sir C. H. St. John Hornby with his bookplate to inside of front board. Bound in original grey cloth with paper title label to spine. 222pp. Hornby was partner of the well known company of stationers and booksellers W.H. Smith and owner of the renowned Ashendene Press. The Subiaco type used by the Ashendene Press was designed by Sir Emery Walker and S. C. Cockerell from an early Italian typeface. The Ashendene Press, which set all of its editions by hand, issued 40 books in the years from 1895 to 1915 and from 1920 to 1935..

CHATTO & WINDUS. LONDON. 1919. VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN FADED GREY CLOTH NO DUSTWRAP, SECOND IMPRESSION 1919, ROUGH CUT PAGES

Minerva edition/the Library Press. Hardback. vgc/No Dust Jacket. gorgeous binding with gold text and decoration on the front, printed end papers, some minor foxing, gold top edge

London: Chatto & Windus, 1919. Near fine.. Signed first edition of Milne's first collection of plays, an aspect of his writing career now criminally overlooked. Milne began his theatrical writing career while stationed on the Isle of Wight doing service during WWI: while some officers spent their free time playing bridge or golf, Milne used it to write these plays. In a nice bit of association, it was J.M. Barrie, already established, who helped Milne gain his feet in the theater and produced one of the plays included here, "Wurzel Flummery." (The other plays are "The Lucky One," "The Boy Comes Home," "Belinda," and "The Red Feathers.") Before Winnie the Pooh, this book marks the beginning of Milne's impressive rise as a playwright, becoming "one of England's most successful, prolific and best-known playwrights for a brief period, a fact that now seems almost incredible, when so many people who know his name and love his books have no idea that he ever wrote plays" (Thwaite). Difficult to find… Read More