Modern First Editions : Their Points and Values. [First, Second & Third Series, 3 vols complete set]

W. & G. Foyle, London, first-third series, 1929-1932. Editions limited to 750, 1000 and 750 numbered copies. 3 vols, cloth, 8vo,. xi, 83, xvii, 93, xxvii, 99 pp. Approximately 300 entries. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With interesting introductory essays by Fabes and, in the second volume, his collaborator William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Authors for whom one or more works are described are : Lascelles Abercombie, Michael Arlen, Maurice Baring, J.M.Barrie, H.E. Bates, Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, Augustine Birrell, David Bone, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Burke, Roy Campbell, A.E. Coppard, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, 'Baron' Corvo, Hubert Crackanthorpe, S.R. Crockett, John Davidson, Rhys Davies, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, William de Morgan, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, C.L. Dodgson, Norman Douglas, A. Conan Doyle, John Drinkwater, Lord Dunsany, L. Feutwanger, J.E. Flecker, Ronald Firbank, John Freeman, John Galsworthy, R.B.C. Graham, Robert Graves, H. Rider Haggard, James Hanley, Frank Harris, A.P. Herbert, Radclyffe Hall, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Norah Hoult, A.E. Housman, Lawrence Housman, Aldous Huxley, W.W. Jacobs, J.K. Jerome, Margaret Kennedy, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence, Francis Letwidge, Shane Leslie, Sinclair Lewis, W.J. Locke, Arthur Machen, Compton Mackenzie, Katherine Mansfield, John Masefield, W.S. Maugham, George Meredith, Leonard Merrick, Alice Meynell, C.K. Montague, George Moore, R.H. Mottram, H.H. Munro, A.E. Newton, Alfred Noyes, Liam O'Flaherty, Eden Phillpotts, T.F. Powys, J.B. Priestley, A. Quiller-Couch, E. Remarque, Michael Sadleir, Sean O'Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, A.D. Sedgwick, Osbert Sitwell, George Bernard Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Somerville & Ross, J. Stephens, R.L. Stevenson, J.A. Symonds, Arthur Symons, Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, H.M. Tomlinson, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, Stanley Weyman, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats. Presentation Copies, each volume being warmly inscribed to Biill Newman (eg "To Bill Newman, known and liked by all good booksellers..." on the front free endpaper or the limitation page and signed by Gilbert Fabes. Copy numbers 347, 599 and 255. Very Good copies in somewhat marked and chipped price-clipped dustwrappers, the dustwrapper for the second volume having a torn area on the rear panel repaired by tape on the inside panel.