The Lady of the Canaries (1913, first edition)

Seven short stories by St John Lucas

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback, red cloth binding with gilt titling. 19.5 x12.5cm, 346pp + 64pp ads (also with tipped in note from Mudie's Select Library regarding securing second hand copies).

A collection of seven short stories, being 1. The Lady of the Canaries, 2. The Red Admiral, 3. The Unfortunate Saint, 4. Sanderson's Venus, 5. The Bridesmaid, 6. The Brandon Leonardo, and 7. Troubles with a Bear in the Midi.

St John Lucas (born St John Welles Lucas-Lucas) was best known for editing The Oxford Book of French Verse, and was a mentor and close friend of Rupert Brooke. They met in 1905 and Brooke would send his poems to Lucas to review.

Condition

Fair. Very much a reading copy only. The red cloth is bumped, rubbed and marked (probably, as suggested above, from Mudie's Library). The book lacks the ffep, opening to the half-title and is foxed throughout. It remains readable and quite a rare title to find in the first edition form, but it's a worn copy.