Vulgarity in Literature. Digressions from a Theme.

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 59, [1]. Publisher's red printed pictorial cream boards, with a series design by Edward Bawden in like dustwrapper (2s Net. to front flap). The case-bound trade issue (a signed edition, limited to 260 copies, was issued simultaneously).

Top edge dusty, faint offsetting to endsheets, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, else a bright crisp copy, in a complete, fresh dustwrapper, sustaining a hint of toning to spine.

An extended essay surveying the literary scene, issued as the first of the Dolphin Books, a series that extended to twenty books over 1930–7, including Samuel Beckett's Proust.

[Bromer A24.2; Duval, Aldous Huxley, A Bibliography, p.76]