On The Art Of Writing Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch [Very Good] [Hardcover]

Description

First Edition (NAP). This book is in quite decent condition, particularly given its age. You can see the covers in the photos. There isn't any conspicuous soiling. There is toning off the top and middle edges. There are only a few tiny spots along the edges with a little light color fading. Each corner has a small spot of rub-through, no more than a small spot on each. There is a spot of rubbing on the front cover at the middle edge. There is one shallow dent on the top edge of the rear cover and one on the bottom edge of the front cover. In the second photo you can see that the spine has some rubbing and color loss at both ends and that there are many tiny specks of color loss over the spine and down the edges of the spine. The gilt lettering on the front cover is fairly bright. On the spine it is dulled at the title and more so on the publisher's name at the bottom. The top page edge is gilt. The middle page edge is deckled or rough-cut. They did a very good job. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover. I turned over every page in the book and didn't find any binding issues. Along the juncture between the rear inside cover and the rear end paper a little paper is lifted up over a 1 3/4"" space revealing the webbing beneath. The paper can be glued back into place. I prefer to let the buyer do the repair. The juncture between the front inside cover and front end paper looks perfect. Both covers are solidly bound. The interior of the book is in very good condition. The pages are exceptionally clean. There is very little wear. One page has two very tiny tears at its outer edge, far from the print. There is a sliver of loss on part of the bottom edge of one page, far from the print. There are a small number of those very thin creases off a top edge. There are no corner creases, no placeholder creases. There is one tan shadow off the top edge of two facing pages, reflective likely of a small newspaper clipping been left there. There are no markings in the book. There is only one very tiny attachment, a bookseller label off the bottom edge of the blank front end paper (The Old Corner Bookstore, Boston, Mass'). No one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. 'Quiller-Couch's Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as On the Art of Writing, is the source of the popular writers' adage 'murder your darlings': 'If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it--whole-heartedly--and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.' Quiller-Couch is regarded by some as the epitome of the school of English literary criticism, later modified by his pupil F. R. Leavis.