THE DRAGON

THE GREEN CLOTH BINDING IS SAID TO BE AN ADVANCED COPY BY A.REYNOLDS MORSE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE (BLACK PUBLISHER'S NAME) AND PICTORIAL CHINAMAN WALKING ON GLOBE IN BLACK AND RED ON FRONT COVER WITH BLACK TITLE. A FINE COPY WITH JUST A TRACE OF CORNER/EDGE RUB. A BEAUTIFUL COPY WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF A.J.DAWSON ENGLISH AUTHOR OF OVER 30 BOOKS INCLUDING "FINN THE WOLFHOUND" AND A DECORATED WW 1 VETERAN. AND A TINY BOOK TAG FROM DYMOCK'S BOOK ARCADE IN SYDNEY. A penciled note in John Gawsworth's copy signed by G. W. Wiggins indicates "I believe this to be one of six advance copies bound before the style was approved for the first binding order." (In another, unknown, hand G. W. Wiggins is identified as "Manager: to Grant Richards). The first binding actually used a light brown cloth instead of the darker green color. In Reynolds Morse's Update to his Shiel bibliography he indicates that George Locke called his attention to the fact that he has seen quite a few copies of the green bindings and quite rightly asked for the source of the information. And Locke indicates that he believed he had a letter from Gawsworth to that effect which Gawsworth most likely copied from that note in his, at that time, personal copy. I have seen that annotated copy.…