Lyrics of a Low Brow by Service, Robert - 1951

Ernest Benn, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 205 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Sticker to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine edges. Staining overall.

Dodd Mead, 1951T. hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709. Faded dustjacket, pages lightly yellowed. Inscribed by previous owner on the first page.\r\n

Ernest Benn Limited, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. First Published. 205 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining to bottom edge of front board. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks and foxing overall.

Ernest Benn 1951. Octavo hardcover (VG-) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1951. Artificial leather, 19 cm, 205 pp. Cond.: goed / good. .

London: Ernest Benn Limited 1951, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 205pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. There is a previous owner's ink inscription on the front free endpaper and there are minor residue markings on the front and rear fixed endpapers. (Poetry--Canada, Poetry--Canada).

Benn, 1951-01-01. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. in x in x in. Hardback with dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Dust cover slightly damaged.

N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Very good ex libris copy with 2 library stamps. ( one on front endpaper, and one on bottom margin page 117 ). Jacket is worn and chipped at edges and folds, with a couple of long closed tears ( quite unobtrusive ), and a chip from spine heel that clips half the W in Brow.A decent copy of an uncommon Service title which is quite scarce in a jacket..

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951. Undetermined. near fine. 1st US Edition. x, 182pp. Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with black strip and gilt lettering to spine. Mild wear to extremities with slight fading to top edge of boards. Internally clean, bright and tight. Decorative bookplate from previous owner affixed to front pastedown. In dust jacket illustrated with green curtains and white writing, price clipped. Jacket shows some mild scratching and wear (mainly at edges) with slight soiling to back cover. Ends of spine display a subtle chipping. A nice copy in great jacket. near fine Mitham A31 a. In this book of verses, as the title suggests, Service writes for the common man. In 'Dawson Ditties' he harkens back to his Klondike days and the girls of the gambling saloons and dance halls. He also pays tribute to literary figures Rex Beach and Jack London in the poem 'Two Men'. 1951

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. First edition. Hardcover in green cloth. 182 pp. A fine, tight example in bright, crisp dust jacket with a miniscule chip at the head of the spine and a touch of rubbing to the front fold. A very nice example indeed of one of the scarcest of Service's books.