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GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933). Soames and the Flag, London, 1930, 8vo, original vellum, glassine wrapper, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 753 OF 1,025 COPIES. With 13 other books by the same author, one a signed limited edition. (14)

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GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933).  Soames and the Flag. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. Large 8vo (230 x 150mm). Half title, title printed in turquoise and black with printer's device. Original vellum lettered in gilt, glassine wrapper with card turn-ins, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase (some staining to vellum boards). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 753 OF 1,025 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 13 other books by the same author, namely The White Monkey (London, 1924. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), The Silver Spoon (London, 1926, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Two Forsyte Interludes. A Silent Wooing. Passers By (London, 1927, 8vo, original cloth-backed paper boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 407 OF 525 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Two Forsyte Interludes (London, 1927, 8vo, original wrappers, trade edition), Swan Song (London, 1928, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), The Roof. A Play in Seven Scenes (London, 1929, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), The Plays (London, 1929, 8vo, original leatherette, slipcase, reprints), Loyalties. A Drama in Three Acts (London, 1930, 4to, 8 plates by S. Van Abbé, original linen boards, first illustrated edition), On Forsyte 'Change (London, 1930, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Maid in Waiting (London,1931, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), The Creation of Character in Literature ... The Romanes Lecture (Oxford, 1931, 8vo, original wrappers), Flowering Wilderness (London, 1932, original cloth, dust-jacket, published in the year the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature) and The Winter Garden. Four Dramatic Pieces ... With a Foreword by Mrs. Galsworthy (London, 1935, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), all FIRST EDITIONS, except where indicated. (14) 

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