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Chatto & Windus, London. 1927. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Original blue cloth, gilt. Rear board is a little soiled, fore-edges lightly foxed. Endpapers browned and some light occasional foxing to o/w clean and sound contents. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CHESTERTON, G. K : The Return of Don Quixote. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. CHESTERTON**, G[ilbert] K[eith]: : The Return of DON QUIXOTE.**LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1927. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG.Blue cloth boards,gilt letters to spine/backstrip.
Owner inscrptn.Remains of front half dw/dj
laid in.Fore-edges slightly darkened.
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UK,12mo HB+partial dw/dj,1st edn.[Front panel and front inner flap the only remaining portion of the original dw/dj.] FINE-/G-.Neat, handwritten,owner's inked inscrptn: name+date (June 21.27) to off-set shadowed front free endpaper,and no price removal (7s. 6d.NET) to dw/dj inner flap.Bright,fairly clean,matt,colour artwork illustration to front panel with red+ white lettering.With shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - some minimal creasing, external corner tips rubbed with some minimal chipping and loss to top,lead corner,and small,partial loss to the lower corner,a single closed tear at both top+bottom edges - dw/dj detached at front gutter's fold/crease.Top edge coloured dark blue,fore-edges aged/toned and with minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,near pristine - text body virtually foxing-free,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean - virtually unmarked,sharp-cornered publisher's original plain blue cloth boards/ covers with double-ruled blocked bordered edges of front+rear boards/covers and bright,crisp blocked gilt letters with gilt ruled borders to title+author box and publisher to foot,on the spine/backstrip,plain white endpapers; each set with verso+recto of both front+rear free endpapers with off-set shadowing from respective opposing front+rear pastedowns,both hinges solid and sound without any splits,tears or cracking. UK,12mo HB+partial dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1- 311pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, XIX (19) chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication to W.R. TITTERTON with blank verso,recto of last page,and 4pp publisher's brief selection catalogue,with first listed title 'Rough Justice' by C. E. Montague - as in the 1st edn,1st issue of 7,500 copies.
Bright,clean and presentable item,this example has survived exceptionally well,particularly without it's complete dw/dj and unusually, without the usual discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a book of this age.
A novel which,in one sense,is the sequel to 'Tales of the Long Bow' (it even has a recurring character); in another sense,it is the sequel to all his novels: softly whimsical and sharply pointed.Some consider it Chesterton's most finely crafted novel.
Michael Herne,a mild librarian - erudite but a recluse - playing the role of a medieval king in play,decides at the end of the performance to keep wearing his costume and head off into the real world as the champion of trade unions to do battle against the modern industrial state.
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