"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
For Lancelot Andrewes. Essays on Style and Order.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. [Literary Criticism] FIRST USA EDITION. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii [2] 159 [5]. Publisher's deep purple cloth, silver stars blocked to upper board and spine. Silver titles to spine. With the decorative dust-jacket priced at $2.00 to front flap. Internally clean but lightly toned throughout. Small closed tear facing title-page. Free of inscriptions, small bookseller's label adhered to rear pastedown. Top edge toned. Gentle sunning to top and bottom of cloth. Jacket split at joints, archivally repaired by us. Light toning to jacket panels. A series of critical essays on a number of controversial literary figures: Lancelot Andrewes, John Bramhall, Niccolo Machiavelli, Francis Herbert Bradley, Baudelaire, Thomas Middleton, Richard Crashaw, and Irving Babbitt. Item #74381
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