Price: £250
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1938
Stock Number: 69816
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting largely restricted to borders, some underlining and marginal marking in pencil on pp. 295-7 (likely those of Rudolph Messel, see below), pp. xxi, 376, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, gentle knock to one corner, the edges a little toned and faintly spotted, bookplate of Rudolph Messel to front pastedown (see below), dustjacket with some very light soiling, a little chipped and nicked at extremities, very good
Publication Details: Constable, 1938
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'R.M with much love from N.M., "The seeming needs of my fool-driven land..."'. Noted in pencil below, possibly in the hand of the recipient, Rudolph Messel, is the derivation of this latter quotation from Yeats's 'All Things Can Tempt Me'. Messel was a contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh. Like Waugh, who described him in 'A Little Learning' as 'cadaverous, wayward, generous', Messel was a member of the notorious Hypocrites Club; his cousin was the stage-designer Oliver Messel. Messel's bookplate, designed by his wife Judith, creates a border for his...more
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