" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher

London: Putnam, 1937. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.ix; [1]; 416; [2]. Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt titles to spine. A lovely clean copy internally, slight lean to the textblock, edges a little toned. Boards slightly bowed. Cloth very lightly handled to extremities but bright and unfaded. An..... More
London: Putnam, 1934. [Short Stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8] 522 [2]. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece after Rex Whistler. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Whistler. Light spotting to edges, endpapers, and preliminary leaves. Trace of removed booksellers ticket to..... More