Search Results: Derby Day by A Edward Newton

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 351 pp. Patterned cloth with a green, black and white pictorial paste-on on the front panel; black and green paste-on on the spine; pale green upper edge; headband; colour frontis; illustrated wtih black and white plates. Light wear on the corners with some darkening on the spine; no dustjacket; no interior markings; hinges tight; gutters intact. The Chapters are: The Derby; Ascot; Off to the Grand National; A Book Collector Goes to the Dogs; Adventures in London: Morning; Adventures in London: Noon and Night; Adventures in Gough Square; Franklin and Johnson Meet at Mr Strahan's; Adventures Westward; The Course of Empire; Adventures at the Hearst Ranch; Adventures in San Francisco; Vienna and I; I and Budapest; The Bronte Country: My First Visit; and The Bronte Country: My Second Visit; followed by an index..

DERBY DAY, L-B, 1934, first edition, some light scrathces to the rear board, else a near fine copy. 1/1,129 copies SIGNED by the author with the Bronte novelette present and intact.

DERBY DAY, L-B, 1934, first edition, near fine in vg slip-case with some modest wear. 1/1,129 copies SIGNED by the author with the Bronte novelette present and intact.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1934. First Edition, Limited edition. 8vo, pp. 351. Illustrated with photographs. Small bookplate on front pastedown, spine slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in worn publisher's box. One of 1129 copies, signed by the author. Literary essays of the noted bibliophile. Adventure book on derby day plus enclosed a facsimile of an unpublished novelette by Charlotte Bronte and a manuscript of the book.