One of Our Conquerors
London: Chapman & Hall, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original smooth light coffee-colored cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered, untrimmed; in a brown half-morocco slipcase (spine dried). Covers a little dust-soiled, extremities a bit rubbed, a good to very good copy. Item #409453
First edition, in a rare variant binding (the book is ubiquitous in royal blue cloth). See Sadleir 1700b for the only known copy at that time (1951) in this binding (a presentation copy). Sadleir quotes a John Carter 'TLS' article of 27 January 1940 regarding this and other rare binding variants: "It looks in fact very much as if certain publishers used binder's trial copies – not for travelling, as often, nor for the copyright libraries, as occasionally, but sometimes also for their author's complimentary half-dozen." Single copies of 'One of Our Conquerors' were also known to Carter and Sadleir in variant bindings of biscuit-colored, cherry-red, and powder-blue cloth. Collie XIII; Sadleir 1700c; Carter p. 141.
Price: $1,200.00