be one of the first copies of the first impression. Nonetheless, this copy does have those attributes, weighing 15.6 oz and with the perfect “3”. Octavo. Original black cloth (Grissom’s A binding), gold labels printed in black to spine and front cover, yellow decorated endpapers, top edge red. With dust jacket. Housed in custom blue leather folding case, lined with marbled paper. Some very minor rubbing to tips and slight surface rubbing to gold labels, but still a superb copy, the jacket bright and near-fine, with only minimal rubbing to corners and tips and one very small rubbed hole near head of rear joint. ¶ Grissom A.7.1.a; Hanneman A7a. £15,000 [154900] 83 HENRY VIII. [Acts of Parliament for 1539.] Anno XXXI. [London: printed by Thomas Marsh, 1575?] THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES An Elizabethan edition of the acts of parliament from the crucial parliamentary year of 1539, including a major act of Henry VIII’s reign, the Suppression of Religious Houses Act, which concluded the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a process started with the first suppression act of 1535.
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82 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927 AN EXEMPLARY COPY First edition of Hemingway’s collection of 13 stories in which, as noted by the blurb, “the softening feminine influence is almost wholly absent – either through training, discipline, death, or situation”. The book is very seldom encountered with the jacket in such exemplary condition.
The volume was the author’s second collection of short stories. Reviewing the book in The New York Times on 16 October 1923, Percy Hutchison claimed “Mr Hemingway shows himself a master craftsman in the short story”. Grissom provides details of five dust jackets of which the present example is the “Jacket B” version used for the first printing (“Jacket A” being a rarely- seen trial version). Grissom’s bibliography queries the long-held view that copies must weigh 15.5 oz or more, and have an unbroken page number 3, to
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