Description
First edition of Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm, handsomely bound in a full leather binding.
Twelvemo, [6], 350pp. Full tan calf with double gilt-ruled border on covers. Title stamped in gilt over blue and green leather spine labels, raised bands with gilt embellishments. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with decorative gilt turn-ins and board edges. Bound by Bayntun of Bath, England. Solid binding, clean text with no marks or notations. Joints rubbed and beginning to split at ends. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. (Gallatin & Oliver 8) A very attractive copy of this satire on undergraduate life at Oxford.
Max Beerbohm was an English essayist and caricaturist. Zuleika Dobson was the only novel he ever published. The Modern Library Board selected it as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
