Max Beerbohm — A Christmas Garland

New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first American Edition of this title, scarcely seen in it's original dust wrapper. The first American edition, with the first UK edition printed in London earlier the same year by William Heinemann. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original dust wrapper. With the original half title and two-page publisher's advertisement to the rear.A collection of seventeen comical parodies, skilfully woven by Beerbohm.Beerbohm mimicked the style of his contemporaries, including Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Rudyard Kipling, under a festive, thematic guise. Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, caricaturist and parodist, notably the drama critic for the Sunday Review from 1898 to 1910.  In the publisher's original cloth with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely. With minor bumping to extremities including head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper, generally good. Front wrap detached from the remainder at the front joint. Further small chips to the rear joint. Sunning and to spine. Scattered marks to wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Good.