Thirteen
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 340pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with the title stamped in green ink on the spine and front board. Gentle bruising to the extremities. Subtle sunning to the backstrip. Old price stamped in ink in the top right fore-edge corner of the front free endpaper. Light foxing to the preliminary and terminal leaves. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist, p. 12. Very Good. Item #68280
A collection of thirteen short stories, which include a mix of fiction, marginal fantasy, and mystery. UK author and World War I army captain Frederick Britten Austin (1885-1941) was particularly interested in the theme of war. He was most noted for his collections of stories reflecting problems for UK military security arising in future wars from new weapons and tactics.
Price: $40.00