TWO STORIES. [London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd.], 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-43 [44: blank], original decorated boards with blue cloth shelf back, paper label affixed to front cover, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Limited to 530 numbered copies (this being copy number 334) signed by Aldington. Two stories, "Deserter" and "The Lads of the Village," both collected in ROADS TO GLORY (1930), Aldington's first collection of short fiction. Kershaw 140. Free endpapers tanned, else a fine copy in very good decorated dust jacket with small chips from spine ends and and a bit of wear long spine folds. (#134249).
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"This Edition consists of 530 copies numbered / and signed by the Author, nos. 1 to 500 being / for sale and nos. 501 to 530 for presentation / ..." on verso of title leaf.
"This Edition consists of 530 copies numbered / and signed by the Author, nos. 1 to 500 being / for sale and nos. 501 to 530 for presentation / ..." on verso of title leaf.