STORER CLOUSTON, J. The Chemical Baby
STORER CLOUSTON, J. The Chemical Baby. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and front board, with ruling. In the attractive and amusing dust jacket. Scarce first printing of this “humorous novel of the creation of artificial life” (Locke) with “a pitch of exquisite absurdity that will reduce readers to guffaws of uncontrollable mirth” [rear panel]. An attractive copy, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and very marginally rolled, the corners sharp and clean, the textblock edges with a handful of small and faint marks. Internally fine. The dust jacket priced at 7/6 net to spine, loss to front panel bottom edge, several chips, nicks, creases and small loss along other edges, corners and along spine panel, with several tape repairs to verso. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
STORER CLOUSTON, J. The Chemical Baby. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and front board, with ruling. In the attractive and amusing dust jacket. Scarce first printing of this “humorous novel of the creation of artificial life” (Locke) with “a pitch of exquisite absurdity that will reduce readers to guffaws of uncontrollable mirth” [rear panel]. An attractive copy, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and very marginally rolled, the corners sharp and clean, the textblock edges with a handful of small and faint marks. Internally fine. The dust jacket priced at 7/6 net to spine, loss to front panel bottom edge, several chips, nicks, creases and small loss along other edges, corners and along spine panel, with several tape repairs to verso. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
STORER CLOUSTON, J. The Chemical Baby. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black to spine and front board, with ruling. In the attractive and amusing dust jacket. Scarce first printing of this “humorous novel of the creation of artificial life” (Locke) with “a pitch of exquisite absurdity that will reduce readers to guffaws of uncontrollable mirth” [rear panel]. An attractive copy, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and very marginally rolled, the corners sharp and clean, the textblock edges with a handful of small and faint marks. Internally fine. The dust jacket priced at 7/6 net to spine, loss to front panel bottom edge, several chips, nicks, creases and small loss along other edges, corners and along spine panel, with several tape repairs to verso. Nevertheless a presentable copy.