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First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in publisher's orange/red cloth with illustrations in black blocked to front cover and spine, with titles in gold. Front cover has illustration of beret-wearing sailor playing the accordion and a child looking on. COLLATION: viii, 298, [6]. CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Light dust-soiling and marks to covers. Engraved former owners' armorial bookplate to front pastedown of a notable Lake Forest, Ill. couple. Binding cracked in one place. With 38 illustrations by English illustrator Will Owen (1869-1957), with his initials "WO", to the front cover.** This collection of twelve short stories by William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) includes his favorite genre, nautical humor, with some witty takes on domestic, middle-class life in England. These tales often have a little twist at the end, making the humor a little barbed. His humor was appreciated by the likes of G.K. Chesterson and J.B. Priestly, who included the author in anthologies of modern authors. REF: Watson 4, 621.
Ref: HAHA 9595
$40.00