The Venture, An Annual of Art and Literature
London: At John Baillie's, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 10.5 x 8 inches, linen backed decorated boards, very good, light general wear, some darkening and mottling to boards, endpapers with offsetting, text clean. The first of only two issues of this literary annual. Contains Maugham's first play, 'Marriages are Made in Heaven', along with contributions from G.K. Chesterton (first publication of 'The Philosophy of Islands'), Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy (first publication of 'The Market- Girl'), A.E. Housman (first publication of 'The Oracles', Laurence Housman ('Proverbial Romances') John Masefield, Laurence Binyon, etc. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles S. Ricketts, Lucien Pissarro, E. Gordon Craig, and others. Very good. Item #h44592
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