A Bed of Roses **VERY RARE TRANSITIONAL BINDING 1927/1928 MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET**

VERY RARE TRANSITIONAL BINDING 1927/1928 MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET A Bed of Roses by W. L. George. New York: The Modern Library, 1927/1928 Reprint. RARE TRANSITIONAL BINDING. Bound in purple balloon cloth but a spine type 6 usually associated with leatherette bindings with Bernhard endpapers. Typical transitional bindings are known to exist from 1928-1929 but this book and dust jacket are from 1927 as titles on the inside of the dust jacket list titles from 1927 but none from 1928 indicating a 1927 printing or the earliest printing of 1928. The book is in VERY GOOD condition - spine is solid and boards are clean, gilt is very bright and nice. Minor spine split starting at title page but still intact. Matching topstain is nice. GORGEOUS AND APPEARS UNREAD. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD+ with minor chipping on top and bottom but otherwise extremely nice and bright and complete. On the inside of the dust jacket titles from 1927 are listed but not from 1928 indicating a 1927 printing WITH THE TRANSITIONAL BINDING. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY RARE EARLIEST TRANSITIONAL BINDING! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…