The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. 223, [1]. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine, with brown top-stain (as called for). Jacket design by Vanessa Bell (priced 10s 6d net to the front flap). Preceded by a week by the U.S. edition.

A tad sunned to spine, usual offsetting to gutters of free endpapers (due to binder's adhesive), previous ownership denoted by attached name tag to upper pastedown. Light crease running parallel to backstrip, slight rubbing to upper lower corner, else a very clean and fresh copy.

A posthumous collection of twenty-six previously uncollected essays and sketches, including pieces on Conrad, Goldsmith, Hardy, Ruskin, and Turgenev.

[Kirkpatrick A30b]