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CHESTERTON, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936). The Man Who Was Thursday. A Nightmare. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith and London: Simpkin, Marshall, et al, 1908.
8o. 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. Original red cloth, lettered in black on front cover, gilt-lettered on spine (hinges cracked, a bit soiled); cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "J.W. Arrowsmith , Bristol" at foot of spine. Here, Gabriel Syme, a member of the "New Detective Corps" of philosophical policemen, traces "the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime." A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "J.W. Arrowsmith , Bristol" at foot of spine. Here, Gabriel Syme, a member of the "New Detective Corps" of philosophical policemen, traces "the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime." A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.