NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS.
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1921. Original olive-green cloth, with dust jacket.
First Edition (preceded by a 35-copy privately-printed issue). This is a collection of pieces that had appeared, over the prior two years, as 25-copy pamphlets produced by Clement Shorter and by T.J. Wise. This copy is in the second state (with the "S" and "A" of "SEA" hand-stamped onto page xi). The first state lacks these letters entirely; the third and usual state has a cancel leaf with the letters properly printed. Supino, drawing from a statement from a Dent official, says that the 9,450-copy first edition consisted of 100, 900 and 8,450 copies in the three states respectively.
This is a fine copy, in a very good jacket (minor edge-wear and creasing; the jacket's spine is quite darkened). Supino A23.3.0 (this copy); Cagle A51a(2). Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino (plus his brief notation on the endpaper). Item #15414
Price: $375.00