[Rarebooks] FS: THE STORY OF HASSAN OF BAGDAD in fine Asprey binding

[Charles Agvent]

FLECKER, James Elroy. HASSAN: THE STORY OF HASSAN OF BAGDAD AND HOW HE 
CAME TO MAKE THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND: A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS. 
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Beautifully bound 
by Asprey in full midnight blue morocco leather with gilt-ruled borders, 
gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, gilt 
dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Copy #226 of 380 numbered 
copies printed on English handmade paper. Introduction by J. C. Squire. 
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. "Men who think 
themselves wise believe nothing till the proof. Men who are wise believe 
anything till the disproof." Foxing to a few interior pages otherwise a 
Fine copy in a lovely binding. (#017207)        $100.00

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