A handful of authors; essays on books & writers.
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936
A handful of authors; essays on books & writers. Edited by Dorothy Collins. - New York, Sheed and Ward, 1953. - 214 p. 21 cm.
Annotations: front end paper [blue ink] Top Meadow Cottage, Beaconsfield, Bucks [illustrated bookplate: a chair in front of an open window, books on shelves surround the window and a sleeping dog lies on the floor in the foreground] Text reads: Ex Libris, Dorothy E. Collins ‘The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned, is that people to whom they are lent, find it so much easier to retain the books than their contents’ [blue pen] Aidan Mackey
Enclosure: [small cream piece of card with annotations in blue pen] Text reads: Dorothy Collins' own copy. Not signed, but with her own bookplate and address (Top Meadow Cottage)
53009800 /L
A handful of authors; essays on books & writers. Edited by Dorothy Collins. - New York, Sheed and Ward, 1953. - 214 p. 21 cm.
Annotations: front end paper [blue ink] Top Meadow Cottage, Beaconsfield, Bucks [illustrated bookplate: a chair in front of an open window, books on shelves surround the window and a sleeping dog lies on the floor in the foreground] Text reads: Ex Libris, Dorothy E. Collins ‘The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned, is that people to whom they are lent, find it so much easier to retain the books than their contents’ [blue pen] Aidan Mackey
Enclosure: [small cream piece of card with annotations in blue pen] Text reads: Dorothy Collins' own copy. Not signed, but with her own bookplate and address (Top Meadow Cottage)
53009800 /L