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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...The Reverend Roger was Alfred Petherton's brother and a master at one of our most glorious public schools. Marjorie hardly agreed with her father in thinking that his presence would add anything to the "festiveness" of the party. It was a pity he should be coming at this particular moment. However, we all have our little cross to bear. Mr. Petherton was feeling playful. "We must bring down," he said, "the choicest Falernian, bottled when Gladstone was consul, for the occasion. We must prepare wreaths and unguents and hire a flute player and a couple of dancing girls..." He spent the rest of the meal in quoting Horace, Catullus, the Greek Anthology, Petronius, and Sidonius Apollinarius. Marjorie's knowledge of the dead languages was decidedly limited. Her thoughts were elsewhere, and it was only dimly and as it were through a mist that she heard her father murmuring--whether merely to himself or with the hope of eliciting an answer from somebody, she hardly knew--" Let me see: how does that epigram go?--that one about the different kinds of fish and the garlands of roses, by Meleager, or is it Poseidippus?..." II GUY and Jacobsen were walking in the Dutch garden, an incongruous couple. On Guy military servitude had left no outwardly visible mark; out of uniform, he still looked like a tall, untidy undergraduate; he stooped and drooped as much as ever; his hair was still bushy and, to judge by the dim expression of his face, he had not yet learnt to think imperially. His khaki always looked like a disguise, like the most absurd fancy dress. Jacobsen trotted beside him, short, fattish, very sleek, and correct. They talked in a desultory way about things indifferent. Guy, anxious for a little intellectual exercise after s...Hide synopsis
Description:Very good. Slightly edgeworn, previous owner's name stamped to...Very good. Slightly edgeworn, previous owner's name stamped to front endpaper. Text is clean.
Description:Fair/No Jacket. First Edition, Second Impression, February 17,...Fair/No Jacket. First Edition, Second Impression, February 17, 1920. Boards are bumped, soiled and edgeworn. Front and rear hinges are broken. Reader copy. (A39)
Description:Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Fourth impression. Boards have...Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Fourth impression. Boards have edgewear and rubbing, spine has a few spots, spine and spine label are faded. Bookplate on front pastedown, pages yellowed, otherwise interior is clean. Sewn binding. 292 pages. L-9.
Description:First edition in Phoenix Library Hardback Maroon leather binding...First edition in Phoenix Library Hardback Maroon leather binding gilt decorated spine, top edge gilt. vi + 292 pp Corners slightly rubbed Near Very Good condition original owner's name on front free end paper.
