THE VERY SHORT MEMORY OF MR. JOSEPH SCORER AND OTHER SEASIDE EXPERIENCES. Edinburgh: Geo. A. Morton ... London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Ltd., 1903. Small octavo, original pictorial tan wrappers printed in orange and black. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription on half title page by Oxenham to Dorothy Lange (this is probably not the American photographer, who would have been eight in 1903). Six linked stories with English seaside holiday settings, one a tale of the coast guard saving lives at sea, others criminous. Drawing on the cover by Will Owen, who illustrated many books by W. W. Jacobs. Hubin (1994), p. 622. Mild stain to fore-edge of text block, else a fine copy. (#116973).
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