HENTY, G.A. / COLLINS, WILKIE / PROFESSOR DARWIN / PROFESSOR EDISON / THOMAS HARDY / RUSKIN, JOHN / ANTHONY TROLLOPE / MARK TWAIN / And Many Others. Ed. By A.A. Reade: Listings

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1 HENTY, G.A. / COLLINS, WILKIE / PROFESSOR DARWIN / PROFESSOR EDISON / THOMAS HARDY / RUSKIN, JOHN / ANTHONY TROLLOPE / MARK TWAIN / and many others. Ed. by A.A. Reade: Study And Stimulants Or The Use Of Intoxicants And Narcotics In Relation To Intellectual Life As Illustrated By Personal Communications On The Subject from Men of Letters and of Science. Edited by A. Arthur Reade. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. / Manchester: A. Heywood and Son 1883 (1st.).  Maroon cloth with paper label on spine (is a variant binding). Dark green endpapers. Half-title. pp. vii / 207 pp. The title-label on spine is rubbed and a bit chipped on one side and slightly marked. Covers clean, although there is a faint mark back cover. Else very clean inside. Paper on endpapers hinge is slight cracked, binding is still tight. Overall still a very good copy of a very scarce book., HENTY’s contribution is at pp.67 - 68: he found smoking helpful, and advantageous alike to health, temper, and intellect, and thought it was in no way deleterious (Newbolt. 188.1)  Price: 525.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart