[Rarebooks] FS: 1903 VENTURE Edited by Somerset Maugham with Illustrations by Lucien Pissarro, E. Gordon Craig, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

[MAUGHAM, W. Somerset]. THE VENTURE. AN ANNUAL OF ART AND LITERATURE. 
London: John Baillie, 1903. First Edition. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 
10-1/4") bound in publisher's decorated boards.The first of only two 
issues of this annual to be printed. Edited by Maugham and Laurence 
Housman. Contributors to this annual include Maugham, Thomas Hardy, G. 
K. Chesterton, John Masefield, and Violet Hunt as well as illustrators 
Lucien Pissarro, E. Gordon Craig, T. Sturge Moore, Sydney Lee, and 
others. Slight cracking to rear hinge. Rubbing and soiling to covers. 
Very Good or better. (#015264) $250.00

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