Books and Manuscripts

Complete Set of the Furnival Books
London: William Jackson, 1930-32. In 12 volumes. First and limited editions, each one of 550 numbered copies (numbers vary), signed by the authors. 4to. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Each illustrated with frontispiece, by Robert Gibbings, John Austen, R.A. Garnett, Frank C. Papé, Duncan Grant, Clare Leighton, and others. Publisher's gilt-stamped buckram, each varying in color, scattered light wear; top edges gilt, other edges trimmed or untrimmed; Nos. 5-12 with publisher's slip tipped in at bottom of title-page ("…Now Published by Joiner & Steele…"); scattered very minor soiling to text; original glassine wanting for each volume. 

Includes: Powys, T.F. The Key of the Field (1930); Bates, H.E. The Hessian Prisoner (1930); Coppard, A. E. The Man from Kilsheelan. A Tale (1930); Davies, Rhys. The Stars, The World, and The Women (1930); Hanley, James. The Last Voyage (1931); Strong, L.A.G. The Big Man (1931); Manhood, H.A. Little Peter the Great (1931); Warner, Sylvia Townsend. A Moral Ending and Other Stories (1931); Garnett, David. A Terrible Day (1932); O’Flaherty, Liam. The Wild Swan and Other Stories (1932); Benson, Stella. Christmas Formula and Other Stories (1932); Collier, John. Green Thoughts (1932).

From the library of Savi Salzberg, manager of the London offices of Alfred A. Knopf from 1927 to 1931.