Modern Literature

Indexes of authors and first lines, xvi & 1023 pp, dark blue cloth gilt in d/w, d/w browned and torn, book underneath looks much better (see picture below), some foxing to endpapers and to closed edges of pages, but not to the pages themselves, on the whole in very good condition, Oxford University Press 1935

18.5 x 11.9 cm, 810g, no ISBN

See the extract (below) from the editor’s preface. 

If I bought this book I would undoubtedly throw the dustwrapper away . . . .

First published in 1912, and reprinted frequently thereafter.  Now, regrettably, out of print.  “The Oxford Book of the Worst Poetry” referred to by Sir Arthur in his preface was never published, but its place was taken by the splendid “Stuffed Owl” edited by D.B. Wyndham Lewis – another book everyone should have on their bookshelf.  Who can forget Wordsworth’s immortal couplet :

“I’ve measured it from side to side –

‘Tis three feet long and two feet wide”?