1922, ISBN: c7dd68d192ce9b15b733345bbcfff31f

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. , 1922. First edition, American issue. With 4 colour plates and 16 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's o… mais…

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. , 1922. First edition, American issue. With 4 colour plates and 16 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. x, 227 pp. A handsome copy, clean and tight and in pleasing condition with little evidence of age or use. SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND A FINE COPY. A wonderfully imaginative tale out of Christopher Morleys oeuvre. Rackhams colour illustrations are quite unusual and marry perfectly to this splendid story. A highly unusual story in which Mr. Gissing, a gentledog of leisure contentedly residing in Canine Estates with Fuji, his butler (a Japanese pug), on an income of 1,000 bones a year, becomes dissatisfied and leaves home to search for where the blue begins (a purpose to life). "Morley admirably creates a canine world through names alone. There are Mike Terrier, the curate Mr. J. Rover Poodle, the upper-class and working-class neighbors Mrs. Airedale and Mrs. Collie, the nursemaid Mrs. Spaniel and little Shaggy, her puppy, Gissings adopted puppies Groups, Bunks, and Yelpers, haughty Mr. and Mrs. Chow and their intolerably spotless little Sandy, the landlady Mrs. Purps, the salesclerk Miss Whippet, the matronly Mrs. Mastiff, the compulsive shopper Mrs. Dachshund, the parishioners Mr. Dobermann-Pinscher, Mrs. Griffon, and Mrs. Retriever. There are the place names like Dalmatian Heights and the little shrine of St. Spitz. These are intermixed with humanless real locales like Paris and Atlantic City, Murray Hill and Fifth Avenue and Broadway and Wall Street, Delmonicos Restaurant and Trinity Church, and real historical personages like the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, and Masefield; to make this our real world only inhabited by dogs, rather than some imaginary planet of dogs." - Fred Patten, William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922, 0<

1925, ISBN: c7dd68d192ce9b15b733345bbcfff31f

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. , [1922 - 1925]. First edition, American issue, undated. With 4 colour plates and 16 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. … mais…

London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. , [1922 - 1925]. First edition, American issue, undated. With 4 colour plates and 16 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. x, 227 pp. A beautiful copy in unusually fine and bright condition. SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND A VERY FINE COPY. A wonderfully imaginative tale out of Christopher Morleys oeuvre. Rackhams colour illustrations are quite unusual and marry perfectly to this splendid story. A highly unusual story in which Mr. Gissing, a gentledog of leisure contentedly residing in Canine Estates with Fuji, his butler (a Japanese pug), on an income of 1,000 bones a year, becomes dissatisfied and leaves home to search for where the blue begins (a purpose to life). "Morley admirably creates a canine world through names alone. There are Mike Terrier, the curate Mr. J. Rover Poodle, the upper-class and working-class neighbors Mrs. Airedale and Mrs. Collie, the nursemaid Mrs. Spaniel and little Shaggy, her puppy, Gissings adopted puppies Groups, Bunks, and Yelpers, haughty Mr. and Mrs. Chow and their intolerably spotless little Sandy, the landlady Mrs. Purps, the salesclerk Miss Whippet, the matronly Mrs. Mastiff, the compulsive shopper Mrs. Dachshund, the parishioners Mr. Dobermann-Pinscher, Mrs. Griffon, and Mrs. Retriever. There are the place names like Dalmatian Heights and the little shrine of St. Spitz. These are intermixed with humanless real locales like Paris and Atlantic City, Murray Hill and Fifth Avenue and Broadway and Wall Street, Delmonicos Restaurant and Trinity Church, and real historical personages like the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, and Masefield; to make this our real world only inhabited by dogs, rather than some imaginary planet of dogs." - Fred Patten, William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., 0<

1925, ISBN: c7dd68d192ce9b15b733345bbcfff31f

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925. A Man's Best Friend [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: Willi… mais…

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925. A Man's Best Friend [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co., [1925]. Edition de Luxe, limited to 175 numbered and signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy No. 30. Quarto (11 x 7 3/4 in; 281 x 200 mm.). x, [2,], 227, [1, blank] pp. With four color-plates including frontispiece, and sixteen line drawings. Quarter black buckram over cream paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Partially unopened. Bookplate on front pastedown. A near fine copy. Where the Blue Begins is a satire about a dog named Gissing (after the author George Gissing) who lives alone (except for his Japanese butler Fuji the Pug), in a little house in the country, in a woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates... In this book all of the characters are dogs... Poodles, Spaniels, Chows, Beagles, Sealyham's, Mastiffs, Dachshunds, Whippets, Borzois', Airedales, Dobermann-Pinschers, Pointers and Scotties. The story appeared two years after Morley's collection of humorous essays Pipefuls. "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." What breed of dog was Gissing? Read the story and find out... Latimore and Haskell, p. 60. Riall, p.154., London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925, 0<

1922, ISBN: c7dd68d192ce9b15b733345bbcfff31f

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[PU: William Heinemann, Ltd and Doubleday ,Page & Co., London and New York], FICTION, CHILDREN STORIES NOISBN, First U.S. Edition. Good copy. No jacket. In light blue cloth covers with gi… mais…

[PU: William Heinemann, Ltd and Doubleday ,Page & Co., London and New York], FICTION, CHILDREN STORIES NOISBN, First U.S. Edition. Good copy. No jacket. In light blue cloth covers with gilt (good) lettering and design on front cover and gilt lettering on spine (faded). Four color plates by Arthur Rackham in beautiful condition. Intact binding. No writing on text pages. Inscription dated 1924 on front free endpaper. Small stains on pages 4 and 5. Stain or paper defect on page 147, which doesn't bleed through or offset to facing page. Browning of endpapers. Fraying of ends of spine and corners. Moderate shelf rubbing. Darkened edges. Pictures upon request. Thank you for your patronage. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall<