Beerbohm, Max | Zuleika, in her original jacket

Property from the Workman Collection

Beerbohm, Max

Zuleika Dobson. Or an Oxford Love Story. London: Wiliam Heinemann, 1911

8vo (195 x 140 mm). Half-title and title printed in black and brown; a few stray spots, heavier foxing to preliminary leaves. Original terracotta cloth, spine gilt-lettered, in original jacket; some faint foxing to endleaves, contemporary inscription to front free endpaper, some light foxing to edges, small nicks to folds of jacket. Housed in custom slipcase. [With:] The Works of Max Beerbohm. New York: Chares Scribner’s Sons, 1896. 12mo (175 x 111 mm). Half-title; some foxing. Original brown cloth, cover and spine gilt-lettered, decoratively stamped in cream and gilt; minor rubbing to extremities, endleaves foxed. First edition, of the 1,000 copies printed, 400 were destroyed. 

(Group lots not subject to return.)

First edition, in the scarce jacket. Zuleika Dobson was the only novel by the English essayist Max Beerbohm. A satire of undergraduate life at Oxford during the Edwardian era, it includes the now-famous line "Death cancels all engagements."

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