Barbarians and Philistines.

Worsley (T.C.)

Barbarians and Philistines.

Democracy and the Public Schools.

Description: FIRST EDITION, sliver of waterstaining to fore-margin of prelims, receding into text and recurrent at rear, pp. 282, [2], 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in white with slight lean to spine, sliver of waterstaining to fore-margins of endpapers (bottom corner), light foxing to same, at foot of rear pastedown the pencilled purchase note of Jonathan Gili, good

Publication Details: Robert Hale, n.d. [circa 1940]

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'John, in gratitude for many things in the past and hopes for a [?] future, Cuthbert'. The recipient was author and publisher John Lehmann, whose enthusiastic opinion of Worsley's earlier book, 'Behind the Battle' is among the reviews quoted at the rear. Lehmann would subsequently publish Worsley's 'The Fugitive Art'.

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Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1940]

Stock Number: 69454

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