FRANK HARRIS.
Pp. x+246, frontispiece portrait, plus 8 plates, index; top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Cassell, London, 1959. First edition. *Biography of the 'author, editor and nineteenth century literary tycoon. Short of stature, he wore two-inch heels on his shoes to increase his height, and compensated for other inferiorities with a voice like thunder and a Napoleonic vehemence. He clothed his barrel-chested body in carefully tailored clothes, butterfly collar, spats and gold watch chain, and his moustaches swung twelve inches apart like those of a cinema villain' [wrapper blurb]. Item #110300
Price: $50.00