Author: DARK, SIDNEY
Title: The Man Who Would Not Be King: Being the Adventures of One Fenimore Slavington, Who Was Neither Born Great Nor Achieved Greatness, But Had Greatness Thrust Upon Him Much to His Own Discomfort and the Discomfort of Many Others
Description: London, John Lane The Bodely Head, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt and black on the spine and black on the upper panel. Blind stamped Review Copy with John Lane's Compliments on the title page. The cloth is marked and worn at the joints. The hinges are a little weakened. Spotting to the endpapers and the book block edges. The binding remains tight and the text is clean. Without dust jacket. Worth reading for the Prefatory Note a paean to the common man and a diatribe against a puritan and interfering ethic which yearns to make us sober, healthy, industrious, efficient, virtuous - and inhuman. Good + .

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