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Leeds: At the Swan Press 1924. Edition limited to 100 copies for private circulation,Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. Number 97 of 150 copies. Square octavo, pp. 50, [1]; Printed by Sydney Matthewman. This drama is set in the old bookshop of Nathaniel Baddeley, age 70. The text block is fine; the fragile card covers are toned, with a small chip, short tears at the edges, and a dampstain along the gutters of the covers. A good or better copy..

Leeds, Swan Press 1924.. Ld. m. Titelprägung. Einband berieben u. teils verfärbt. Nr. 65 v. 100 Ex.

Leeds: The Swan Press , 1924. Hardback, full-leather, with gilt title to front board. 50pp. Illustrated by Fred Lawson. No. 15 of a limited edition of only 100 copies. Binding slightly rubbed. Scarce. (al31). Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Lawson, Fred .

Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. Edition limited to 100 copies for private circulation, square 8vo, pp. 50, [1]; title printed in red and black, half title and colophon in red; printed by Sydney Matthewman; small chip at top of spine; very good in orig. full blue calf stamped in gilt on upper cover. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 431: "A commercial plant, with considerable attention to good book making" not to be confused with the Swan Press of London.

Leeds: The Swan Press, 1924. A play for the fireside in one act. Illustrated by Fred Lawson. Pp. 52(last colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, half-title page vignette, and headpiece decorations, the title, headings and colophon printed in red; f'cap. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; fore-edges uncut; occasional faint soiling; printed by Sydney Matthewman at The Swan Press, Leeds, 1924. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. *A play with an antiquarian bookselling theme, by the sometime President of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Loosely inserted is a 4pp. advertising leaflet for Dale Dramasand Singing Rivers, also by Dorothy Ratcliffe, published by John Lane, The Bodley Head. From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label (from Malta) and pencilled signature on the upper pastedown.

Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. full blue calf. small 4to. full blue calf. 50, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. A play with the main character being Nathaniel Baddeley, an antiquarian bookseller. The play is staged in his shop and concerns the sale of his dearest possession, a book, to the American bookseller, Vosenach. Vosenach is almost certainly patterned after A.S.W. Rosenbach. (Vosenach does not get the book.). Beautifully printed. Spine is rubbed.