Descripción

8vo., First Edition, some very light and inoffensive spotting (mainly to gutters); original black cloth, upper board lettered in red, backstrip lettered in gilt (lettering a little faded but wholly legible), red top, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, firm copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Cape's advertisement leaf, printed on yellow stock and promoting Nichols' 'Down the Graden Path' (the first of his keenly sought-after garden titles), is tipped-in at rear free endpaper. This leaf is very often missing. Some six years before the event Nicholas is forecasting the coming of WWII and here delivers a clear exposition of his (subsequently notorious) pacifist outlook. In later life, this work was to assume for its writer significant personal value. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE.