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Adcock, Arthur St. John, City Songs (Association Copy)

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Adcock Arthur St John - City Songs (Association Copy) Selwyn & Blount Ltd, London, first edition, 1926, 79pp, some uncut, quarter cloth, plain boards with titled pasted down. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Frederick Britten Austin (1885-1941) and also with a letter to him from Adcock on "The Bookman" (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd) headed paper, dated 11 May, 1926. Adcock was acting editor of The Bookman from 1908 and in 1923 he became its official editor

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