Product Description
Viii + [352] pp.
Brown cloth binding w/repaired covers, deckle edge.
First Edition (first printing) of Beerbohm's only novel.
8vo.
350pp.
Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's monogram blind-stamped to the rear board.
Bookplate of Otis Skinner Blodget.
Previously owned by GH Hardy, author of "A Mathematician's Apology", inscribed to GM Trevelyan Jan.
1948 Swann Sale 2289, Lot 52.
Receipt dated 10/2012.
Otis Skinner (Dick) Blodgett was a CBS-TV director in New York, son of the writer and actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and grandson of the actor Otis Skinner.
a romantic satire which sees the entire undergraduate body of Oxford University quite literally die for love of the novel's protagonist.
Zuleika was "extolled as 'the perfect Oxford novel'" and described by E.
M.
Forster as "the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time" (Hall, p.
135).
Beerbohm became acquainted with Oscar Wilde and other members of the literary and artistic circle connected with The Bodley Head.
The book was issued simultaneously in the present smooth cloth, and in rough cloth for circulating libraries.
; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 360 pages
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