Buy this book on-line HERRING, ROBERT: : The President's HatLONDON.LOMGMANS,GREEN AND CO. LTD.,1926. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG-.Owner's handwritten initials and later date (December 1931) to front free endpaper,no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - possibly an export edn,generally believed to precede the UK trade edn issue.Bright,crisp,matt,vibrant,multi-colour pictorial artwork by Cecil Beaton, illustrated front panel and spine/ backstrip of dw/dj with black lettering to front panel and slightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip,rear panel with lightly grubbed,white background with publisher's advert for other published titles.With negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners,a small triangular portion approx.1" high by 3/4" wide loss, affecting part of publisher's name,to rear,lower edge.Small single dents noted to each top+bottom of both front+rear boards,with a single bruise/dent to rear board's fore-edge.Minimal creasing to top, rear edges along with two small closed tears at spine's top front+rear gutter's crease/folds and a tiny closed tear further along the top edge,rear lower corner minimally bumped with rubbing and some chipping loss,no other major nicks, tears or splits present.Top edges slightly discoloured through dust-soiling but without foxing/spotting,fore-edges particularly brighter and also without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, exceptionally clean - almost pristine - solid and sound,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered - aforementioned rear corner excepted,publisher's original brown background with gold colour repeated star shapes,paper-covered boards/covers with a dark brown cloth blind-spine with blocked gilt lettering to same,and clean plain white eps - the only detraction to them both,is the ubiquitous and inevitable off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flaps to respective verso+rectos of both free endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 1219pp [paginated] includes XXVII (27) chapters with profuse scenic,thumbnail b/w line illustrations by Hubert Williams, half-title,scenic b/w line illustrated, tissue-guarded frntis with production fault of a small,narrow,elliptical hole with concomitant portion stuck to title page,a title page,an initialled dedication,contents list/table and to the rear,2pp blank with printers details to its recto.Author's debut work,book,a fictional Andorran travelogue.
An exceptional item,in it's cleanliness and the dw/dj's near entirety because of the fragility of paper used,and with little detraction from either. Exceptionally scarce with dw/dj present.
Robert Herring Williams,born 13th May 1903 – died 1975) was a Welsh writer and poet,remembered as an early film critic and editor of the literary magazine,'Life and Letters To-Day.'
He began his writing career with a whimsical,fictional travelogue set in Andorra,'The President's Hat.' whilst he also undertook editorial work and introductions for a series of new editions of English comedies of manners for the highly reputable publisher Macmillan, starting with 'The School for Scandal.', 1927.
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