The Coast of Pleasure by Richards, Grant - 1928

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1928. Hardcover, blue and yellow cloth, no dust-jacket. 359pp., Illustrated with map endpapers and a color frontispiece and other line drawings by Tom Van Oss. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. Mild age soiling, else a very nice copy of this humorous travelogue. Near very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harper & brothers, 1/1/1928 12:00:00 AM. hardcover. Good. 1.1811 8.2677 5.9055.

Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012-11-02. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.0558 cent in x 22.8934 cent in x 15.1777 cent in. Joinathan Cape first edition on blue cloth

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Chapter Practical, Geographical and Anecdotal on the Social, Open-Air and Restaurant Life of the French Riviera. 361 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with color plate. Further illustrated with 36 delightful b/w drawings including small line drawing on title page. Previous owner's name top of title page. Pages good condition. DJ was cut apart and 2 colorful illustrations from it are folded and attached to blank pages before title page. 1 of the DJ illustrations has pencil writing. Book precis also attached to half title page. Title page stained. Endpapers illustrated with b/w maps. Previous owner's name and book plate on front paste down endpaper. Yellow and blue cloth illlustrated with yellow sun. Yellow and blue titles. Lower cover wrinkled and soiled. Head/tail of spine, edges and corners worn and bumped. GOOD+. 1st US Edition. Hard Cover.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Illustrated by Tom Van Oss. Decorated boards. Fine in price-clipped, near fine pictorial dust jacket with a few short nicks and tears. Noted publisher explores the high-life in France. The wraparound Van Oss jacket art extends onto both jacket flaps as well, forming a wide panorama of a Riviera scene. A handsome copy.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1928. Inscribed to one of the author's "playmates on the coast of pleasure" First edition, first impression, dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "To Edward Clodd, with affection of the author, Grant Richards, 16. V. 32". Clodd is listed in the printed dedication as one of Richards's "playmates on the coast of pleasure", alongside A. E. Housman, Frederic Jessel, Theodore Dreiser, E. S. P Haynes, and Philip Sainsbury. Richards (1872-7948) is best-known as a publisher. He launched the World's Classics series, and published Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1898), James Joyce's Dubliners (1914), and several titles by the recipient of this copy, Edward Clodd (1840-1930), including Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley (1897). Clodd was an anthropologist and early devotee of Darwin. He wrote many popular books on evolutionary science, and biographies of Darwin, Thomas Huxley, and Herbert Spencer. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, monogram on… Read More