THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE A FAIR TALE FOR TIRED MEN
by Beerbohm, Max
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York & London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897.. 52,[3]pp. Small octavo (17 x 13.5 cm). Original stiff printed pictorial wrapper, edges untrimmed. Narrow 4 cm loss along the top of the extreme overlap fore-edge of upper wrapper, trace of foxing along lower fore-edge of upper wrapper, tiny early mend to clean split at crown of lower joint, but an unusually nice copy, enclosed in a half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition of Beerbohm's second accessible separate prose publication, published as Bodley Booklets #1. Designed by Will Bradley and printed at the Wayside Press in Springfield, MA. GALLATIN & OLIVER 3. BAMBACE A16. NCBEL IV:1001.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT88512
- Title
- THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE A FAIR TALE FOR TIRED MEN
- Author
- Beerbohm, Max
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lane, the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1897.
Terms of Sale
William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
All material is shipped subject to approval, but notification of return must be made within ten days and returns made in a prompt and conscientious fashion.
As our inventory is housed in two locations, queries about availability should be made by e-mail rather than telephone.
We do not drop-ship to third parties.
About the Seller
William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...