Second Book, With Signature Tipped In
Scholar-Gipsies.
Buchan, John.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price:
$1,000.00
About the item
First edition of the author’s second book. The Arcady Library Edited by J.S. Fletcher. With 7 original etchings by D.Y. Cameron (frontispiece, title-page, and 5 plates). Pp. [ii, blank], [x], 206, [ii, blank]; 16, catalogue. 1 vols. 8vo. Dark brown cloth spine gilt and tan cloth boards stamped in brown, top edge stained brown, others uncut. Spine ends faintly bumped, else near fine, fresh copy. Blanchard A2.
Item #377937
Nice copy of Buchan’s second book, published while he was still a scholarship student at Brasenose College, Oxford. Buchan became a reader for John Lane and contributed three stories to the Yellow Book
With a signature of the author (“John Buchan”) tipped in at the foot of the title page.
