The Reminiscences of a Fiddle Dealer

(1924). 22.5 cm. xvii, 170, (4) pp., frontispiece portrait and 7 plates with illustrations of instruments. Original hardcover cloth with original dust jacket.* Inside of jacket, endpapers, first and last few pages as well as edges of text block with some browning, a few old newspaper cuttings laid in, with some associated offsetting, some scattered foxing, pp. 77/78 with small burn hole in white margin (funnily, dated in pencil ‘29.10.45’), uncut edges. * There is no year of publication, but WorldCat dates this first English edition to 1924 and the first American edition to 1925. This copy with – we assume, erroneously – 1927 in pencil on the title page.