first edition Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
1911 · London
by Beerbohm, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Small pencil shelf mark at foot of title page verso. A near fine copy in morocco backed slipcase and cloth wrapper. First edition. Title page printed in brown and black. [viii], 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. “Oxford! The very sound of the word spoken, or sight of it printed, is fraught for me with the most actual magic.”
The incomparable Max wrote one novel, a satire begun in 1898 but abandoned for more than a decade and not finished until 1911. E.M. Forster wrote that Zuleika Dobson has “beauty unattainable (truncated)
The incomparable Max wrote one novel, a satire begun in 1898 but abandoned for more than a decade and not finished until 1911. E.M. Forster wrote that Zuleika Dobson has “beauty unattainable (truncated)