The First Edition and Book Collector.

First edition. Quarto. 290mm. Pp. [2] 3 - 48. Uncut. [4] full page illustrations .Contents stitched as issued, and printed on very poor quality paper which do not do justice to the quality of the illustrations. Title page spotted, contents very occasionally lightly spotted otherwise clean. Mustard limp card covers, printed in black, a ltttle dusty and lightly soiled, the upper cover and three other illustrations and tailpieces all by Alan Oddle.The backstrip defective, chipped, and sometime repaired. Includes brief reference to value of D.H. Lawrence first editions in article by Verne: Psychoanalysts and others. Contents include A.D. 1924 [editorial] -- On collecting first editions -- How I built myself a house / Thomas Hardy -- The condition of books -- George Moore / G.H.V. -- Extending the collecting interest -- Poem : Winter nightfall / H.D.C. -- Buying first editions and picking up bargains -- Café Royalists (past and present) / T.W.H. Crosland -- Marie Romesco / H.D.C. -- The Quinn sale -- Poem : To Walt Whitman / T.W.H. Crosland -- Pyscho-analysts and others : notes on some modern authors / G.H. Verne. Overall, a near very good copy. A short lived periodical which ceased publication after the No. 2, September-October, 1924 issue. The illustrator John Austen (1886 -1948) a contemporary and friend of Oddle's said of him -' At no time in the history of Graphic are, I think, has such great achievement been so neglected or genius so barred from his due laurels. '.…