The Man Who Died Eggleston a limp cabbage

a limp cabbage

Sides of boards slightly scuffed

First Edition of a book that went to at least fourteen editions up to around 1870

Tall hardback in the dust-jacket

Small quarto (8 x 6

The Man Who Died Eggleston a limp cabbageLondon: Heinemann, 1935. Second edition, first illustrated. Cloth backed marbled boards with the slightly rubbed and darkened dust jacket. Foxing to title pages, some light foxing to inside pages else a clean and tight copy. With ten wood engraved illustrations by John Farleigh. An early draft of this story was first published in 1929 in a limited edition by the Black Sun Press in Paris, under the title The Escaped Cock. A limited edition was first