Item #311910 A CHRISTMAS GARLAND, Woven by Max Beerbohm. Max BEERBOHM.
A CHRISTMAS GARLAND, Woven by Max Beerbohm.

A CHRISTMAS GARLAND, Woven by Max Beerbohm.

London: William Heinemann, 1912. First Edition. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front panel, gilt borders and a small gilt device of a garland of holly on front panel, top edges trimmed, others untrimmed. 197 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Bookplate on the front paste-down. Some minor interior staining, cloth worn at edges and spine tips, and with a small split about 1" long at base of front spine hinge; small scratches to cloth; very good overall. Item #311910

¶ Collects seventeen tales, all pastiches of other authors styles: represented are Henry James; Rudyard Kipling; A.C. Benson; H.G. Wells; G.K. Chesteron; Thomas Hardy; Frank Harris; Arnold Bennett; John Galsworthy; G.S. Street; Joseph Conrad; Edmund Gosse; Hilaire Belloc; George Bernard Shaw; Maurice Hewlett; George Moore; and George Meredith. "The best collection of literary parodies published in English"

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