Holbrook Jackson — Maxims of Books and Reading

London, The First Edition Club, 1934. First edition. Leather. A very scarce essay on the pleasure of reading by Holbrook Jackson, a signed limited edition. A very scarce limited edition of four hundred unnumbered copies.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, dated 1934. Bound for The First Edition Club by Henry T. Wood LTD. A concise essay on reading and books, exploring the joy that can derive from reading for pleasure, and the experiences that one can go through with books.By the journalist, writer, and publisher George Holbrook Jackson. A noted journalist who worked for numerous magazines during his career, Jackson is known as being one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. He founded in the Flying Fame Press alongside Ralph Hodgson and Claud Lovat Fraser, and had a long association with English small presses. In the original morocco binding, bound by Henry T. Wood LTD. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities, and to the head of the rear board. Spine is faded. A few light marks to the boards. Author's signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .