"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke

London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.163; [1], blank. With six photographic plates and four drawings by Vanessa Bell. Elegantly bound in recent red half morocco over matching cloth sides, top edge red. Light spotting to first and final leaves, rear blank also toned else content are clean, binding unmarked. A near fine copy. An imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, 'Flush' is a cross-genre blend of fiction and non-fiction, commonly read as a modernist consideration of city-life seen through the eyes of a dog, which serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of an urban existence. Item #52460
Price: £250.00