"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Light Freights.
London: Methuen & Co., 1901. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 295 [49]. With 12 line-drawn plates by Stacey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and all in black to upper. Spotting throughout; quite heavily to edges. Toning to endpapers. Only very light wear to cloth. Very good. A collection of sixteen short stories, including the strange tale 'Jerry Bundler,' originally written as a play and first brought to the stage in 1899. Item #57556
Price: £65.00
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