Price: £400
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1912
Stock Number: 69542
Williamson (C.N. & A.M.)
The Guests of Hercules.
Description: FIRST EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece, half-title browned with pencilled ownership inscription, occasional spots, one spread browned from previous insert, pp. [viii], 461, 31 [publisher's list], crown 8vo, original red cloth, upper board lettered in blind, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt, this a shade faded and gently rubbed at foot, a couple of corners knocked, edges faintly spotted, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf and bookseller blind-stamp at head of same, endpapers lightly spotted, dustjacket in excellent shape with a few tiny nicks, very good
Publication Details: Methuen, 1912
Notes: A scarce first edition, with the original dustjacket an unexpected attribute. The novel was the basis for the lost 1920 Rudolph Valentino film 'Passion's Playground'. Its story concerns a heroine, Mary Grant, who leaves behind her convent education for a wild time in Monte Carlo. The authors were husband and wife, Charles Norris and Alice Muriel - a partnership in which the latter was largely responsible for the actual writing.
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