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Clothes: An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments worn by Men and Women.
London and Toronto: Jonathan Cape, [July] 1931. Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge, June 1931. Hardcover. 12mo (7.5” x 5”), gilt blue-green cloth. Top edge colored green, deckled edges. [viii], 197, [2]. Ten illus., including a title-page device, three full-page and five half-page illus., and one tailpiece, all wood-engravings by the author. CONDITION: Good, spine browned and covers faded, contents clean. First “ordinary” edition (there was also a limited edition of 160 copies). “An edition in German was contemplated, but though an 8-page prospectus containing a specimen page was issued…it never materialized. Printed on the back of this prospectus are extracts, in German, from reviews which appeared in five British journals.” REFERENCES: Gill 22.
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Price: $75.00
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