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The Four Seas Company, Boston, [1919]. Acceptable. First ed. thus from the International Pocket Library edited by Edmund R. Brown; 90 p., clean and completely unmarked; frontis. ill. & others by G. Jeanniot; paper mildly age-toned but strong; tiny open tear on front end paper corner; tattered black leather covers are detached--this volume deserves rebinding! This collection also includes "The Piece of String," "The Umbrella," "The Duel," and other classic stories.

His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. Paperback. Good. Exterior fairly worn, especially at spine. Still quite readable: text unmarked, just light foxed. Binding weak. 174 pages, plus many pages of adverts. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available!

London, Castle, 1924.. 8vo. 128+[4]pp.. Original green cloth gilt in bright dustwrapper with a couple of chips and price removed from backstrip. An excellent copy.. First combined edition. Scarce in the dustwrapper.

Canterbury, UK: Printed for Private Circulation by H. J. Goulden, Limited, 1922 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. 13 (1) pp. First Edition, 1922. Very Scarce Collectible Title. Thin Stapled Pamphlet. Light faded external edges, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white, and bright. 5" x 8.25". Original printed wrappers in protective sleeve..

Canterbury, UK: Printed for Private Circulation by H. J. Goulden, Limited, 1922 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo. 8vo. 13 (1) pp. First Edition, 1922. Very Scarce Collectible Title. Thin Stapled Pamphlet. Light faded external edges, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white, and bright. 5" x 8.25". Original printed wrappers in protective sleeve..

JOHN GALSWORTHY AN APPRECIATION, H. J. Goulden, 1922, first edition., this copy with the title page, fine in wraps and blue folding case. 1/25 copies according to the printer. 1/75 according to the bibliographer. Scarce. Curiously missing from the spectacular Raymond M. Sutton, Jr. collection.

Canterbury: H.J. Goulden, Limited, 1922. First edition, first printing, lacking title page. One of 25 copies printed. 13 pp. 4to. Stitch-bound teal wrappers, some light toning at edges, else a near fine copy. First edition, first printing, lacking title page. One of 25 copies printed. 13 pp. 4to. Galsworthy had met Conrad in early 1893, when a passenger on board the Torrens, of which Conrad was the first mate. This piece was written as a review of Galsworthy's novel A Man of Property, the review appeared in the March 31, 1906 issue of Outlook magazine. Conrad later had to apologize to his friend Galsworthy when this was inadvertently omitted from Notes on Life & Letters (but was later collected in Last Essays). As with the companion piece, The Dover Patrol, Conrad disliked the initial printing because it lacked a title page (other than the wrapper), and asked that it immediately be reprinted to include one. This is the true first printing lacking a title page, though the second printing is the one… Read More