Ernest Bramah: Bibliography

Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday

MB No. SS Number Description
A.14.a Stor-A1 First Printing 1929

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DISCUSSION

Full Title:

Short Stories | of To-day and Yesterday | [rule] | ERNEST |BRAMAH | [publisher's device] | GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD. | LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY

Publication:

London: George G. Harrrap & Co., 1929

Binding:

Maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers blank; 7 inches x 4⅝ inches; pp. 288

Spine: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] [rule] | Short | Stories | [rule] | Ernest | Bramah | [rule]

(see image above).

Notes:

The copy shown here is in the first (and in my experience, the most common) binding. Mike B reports two secondary bindings, in brown and black art. leather.

This collection of eleven of Mr. Bramah's stories includes four Chinese tales (all from Kai Lung's Golden Hours), three Max Carrados stories (all from Max Carrados Mysteries), and four other stories taken from The Specimen Case.