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The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1912. December 1912. No. 255. Vol. 43.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac, and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various artists. Publisher's brown soft cloth-covered covers, titled and decorated in red, with a black and white photograph of Rudyard Kipling to upper, priced at 2s. Moderate wear to covers, including some chips and tears to spine. Frontispiece carefully removed, otherwise plates appear intact. Internally clean. Good. A bumper selection of bookish articles focusing on subjects including Rudyard Kipling, George Meredith, Mrs Gaskell, The Loeb Library, Lord Byron, William Morris, and Thomas Hardy. Item #66989
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