GLORY OF LIFE.
Pp. 44+[2](author's device, verso blank), photogravure frontispiece; reddish-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the author's device of an Egyptian ankh in gilt on upper board, edges of boards faintly faded; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges and backstrip browned, a little silverfish damage below top edge of front panel near backstrip; John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1938. Second edition. Foss A18b. *First published by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1934, in a limited edition of 277 copies with illustrations by Robert Gibbings. According to Foss (p. 65), this edition was 'substantially altered' from the first edition: 'almost 1000 words were omitted, mostly towards the end where there is an attack on schoolmen theologians'. Item #133445
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