Bohemia in London
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907.
First US edition. Original brown pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in green, beige and black. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Sixteen black and white plates and further illustrations in the text by Fred Taylor. A very good copy indeed, the spine ends slightly rolled, and a little offsetting from the frontispiece.
Described by Cowen as "Ransome's first major work", 'Bohemia In London' was written when Ransome was just 22 years of age. It was published in the UK in September 1907, followed by this US edition two months later.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of John Cowen, Ransome collector and scholar.
Stock ID: 36739
