Merry-Go-Down. A Gallery of Gorgeous Drunkards through the Ages.
Collected for the Use Interest Illumination and Delectation of Serious Topers.
Stock Code 109868
London, The Mandrake Press, [1929].
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One of 600 copies. Limited to 600 numbered copies, of which this is number 133.
With contributions from Genesis through Pliny, Plato, Seneca and Petronius before Dickens, Norman Douglas and James Joyce. Notably, the work contains 'All Off for a Buster' by James Joyce, the closing pages of Episode XIV of Ulysses.
Limited edition, number 133 of 600 copies; 4to (29 x 20.5 cm); illustrated throughout by Hal Collins, occasional light offsetting from illustrations, some offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's tan buckram, blue lettering to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with the original pictorial dust-jacket printed in blue, some creasing and short closed tears to edges, else very good.
With contributions from Genesis through Pliny, Plato, Seneca and Petronius before Dickens, Norman Douglas and James Joyce. Notably, the work contains 'All Off for a Buster' by James Joyce, the closing pages of Episode XIV of Ulysses.
Limited edition, number 133 of 600 copies; 4to (29 x 20.5 cm); illustrated throughout by Hal Collins, occasional light offsetting from illustrations, some offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's tan buckram, blue lettering to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with the original pictorial dust-jacket printed in blue, some creasing and short closed tears to edges, else very good.
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