first edition Hardcover
1911 · London
by BEERBOHM, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Smooth brown cloth gilt. Spine lettering a little dull, a couple of tiny spots on the boards, light edgewear, very good or a little better. Chock-full one page Autograph Letter Signed from Seymour Leslie in 1977 when he was 89, to collector Clinton Krauss discussing George Moore, and mentioning Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill. Leslie's copy, although nothing beyond the presence of the letter testifies to that; it came with other books from his library. Beerbohm's only novel, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford where the eponymous heroine lures numerous (truncated)