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Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Only. First edition. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this anthology of short stories, in the original 1920s dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing of this very scarce work. The second work in this series, which began with 'Georgian Stories 1922'.In the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Copies of this series in dust wrappers are vanishingly scarce.An anthology of fourteen short stories from celebrated Georgian era writers, all of which had been previously published in periodicals.Present here are tales from: Stacy Aumonier; J. D. Beresford; Algernon Blackwood; Phyllis Bottome; Ernest Bramah; A. E. Coppard; E. St. John Ervine; Cyril Falls; Aldous Huxley; Mrs. Belloc Lowndes; St. John Lucas; Denis Mackail; Orlo Williams; P.G. Wodehouse.Tales include: 'The Purity of the Turf' by Wodehouse, 'The Gioconda Smile' by Huxley, and 'Tongues of Fire' by Blackwood. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper back strip significantly age toned. Rear wrap detached but present. Major loss to back strip head. Wraps bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…