THE NEW DECAMERON, VOLUME THE SECOND, CONTAINING THE SECOND DAY [Hardcover] -

Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. No Edition Remarks. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Green paper covered boards with beige cloth to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Volume the second. Pages are lightly tanned, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Rough-cut edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear, with noticeable corner bumping and some scuffing to edges. Spine and edges are slightly sunned, with light crushing to ends. Faint brown marks overall, with small water stain to rear board. Slight removal of paper to rear board.

Oxford, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1920. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with grey spine. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages to text block edge. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean.

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1920. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 183pp + [i] press opinions. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Pictorial endpapers. Some rubbing and wear to the corner tips. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. A quite early bookform Sayers contribution, which was never subsequently reprinted (she had previously contributed The 'Priest's Tale: The Journeyman' to the first volume of 'The New Decameron', published a year earlier). Also includes contributions by W.F.Harvey (his story 'The Tool'), Michael Sadleir (his story 'Based Upon the Waters'), Storm Jameson, Sherard Vines, and Basil Blackwell. Gilbert B6..

New York: Robeert M. McBride & Co, 1920. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. About fine in very good dustwrapper with a faint stain on the spine and some offsetting on the front panel. A collection of stories, including one by Dorothy L. Sayers. Very scarce in jacket.