Estimate: $300 - $500
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition (one of only 2,150 copies printed). 8vo. 350 pp. Original smooth green cloth, stamped in gilt, spotting to front board and soiling to both boards; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed. From the library of English publisher Martin Secker and with his Bridgefoot (House) Iver book-plate on front paste-down.
Martin Secker (1882-1978) was an influential London publisher who counted among his stable, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie, Thomas Mann, and George Orwell.