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— Groucho Marx

New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1917. [Strange tales] FIRST US EDITION, one of 1500 copies. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 228; [2]. Publisher's brown cloth, black titles to upper and spine. Interior mostly clean, although thumbed and/or spotted in a few places. Small bookseller's sticker to rear paste-down. Top..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1929. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 745 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edges, pencil ownership inscription, light spotting to preliminaries, else internally clean. Wearing to edges, more so spine and board corners, shaken in binding, light..... More