Max Beerbohm — Seven Men

London, William Heinemann, 1919. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Beerbohm's popular collection short stories, scarcely seen in it's original dust wrapper. The first edition of this short story collection by celebrated caricaturist and parodist, Max Beerbohm. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the unclipped dust wrapper.With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear and further advertisements to the rear dust wrapper and fly leaves.The work was quickly followed by a United States edition in 1920 and an enlarged edition in 1950; Seven Men, and Two Others.In these short fictional pieces, Beerbohm creates a series of lively characters from fin-de-siècle society and interacts with them as the seventh man.Virginia Woolf dubbed the book a 'little masterpiece&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. With only minor bumping to head and tail of spine and lower extremities. Hinges slightly starting at boards. Discreet bookplate to upper front paste down. Offsetting to end papers from wrap. Dust wrapper, very smart. Slight sunning to wrap, more prominent at spine. The odd small chip and loss to wrap at joint extremities and even smaller loss at fold extremities. Single small closed tear to rear wrap. Offsetting to reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Mild age toning to page extremities. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.