Title: Greybeards at Play, Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen, Rhymes and Sketches Author: Chesterton, Gilbert [K]. Place: London Publisher: R. Brimley Johnson Date: 1900 Description: ix, [2], 102 + [7 ads], 2 (blank) & [1] ad pp. 7¼x5½, original linen-backed pictorial orange paper over boards, front cover colored in yellow, black and white over the orange paper, spine lettered in black. First Edition. Author's exceedingly rare first book. Best known for his Father Brown mystery series, Chesterton was one of the most prolific and influential English authors of the early twentieth century. W.H. Auden praised Greybeards at Play as "some of the best pure nonsense verse in English." Lot Amendments Condition: Spine a bit darkened, light rubbing, corners bumped; minor foxing; very good or better, clean and bright. Item number: 167275
Title: Greybeards at Play, Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen, Rhymes and Sketches Author: Chesterton, Gilbert [K]. Place: London Publisher: R. Brimley Johnson Date: 1900 Description: ix, [2], 102 + [7 ads], 2 (blank) & [1] ad pp. 7¼x5½, original linen-backed pictorial orange paper over boards, front cover colored in yellow, black and white over the orange paper, spine lettered in black. First Edition. Author's exceedingly rare first book. Best known for his Father Brown mystery series, Chesterton was one of the most prolific and influential English authors of the early twentieth century. W.H. Auden praised Greybeards at Play as "some of the best pure nonsense verse in English." Lot Amendments Condition: Spine a bit darkened, light rubbing, corners bumped; minor foxing; very good or better, clean and bright. Item number: 167275
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