* Rare Sign Ltd * Edward Shanks The Universal War & Universal State 1946

Author : Edward Shanks      

Title: The Universal War and The Universal State         

Publisher: Signed Limited Edition Published by The Dropmore Press London 1946…… Signed by Edward Shanks on the Limitations.This is copy number 6 of only 25 Copies specially bound and SIGNED by Edward Shanks …………….. (see pictures) 

Condition Of book: This is a Very Near Fine Copy of this book in half cream buckram over tan boards with gilt title lettering to spine and with gilt crest to the front cover.It has been set in 16 point monotype and printed on hand made paper and bound by Evans of Croydon.The binding is firm with no hinge weakness.Clean endpapers and this copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.Book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness,no loose leaves etc.An attractive and handsome copy that looks well on the shelf and uncommon in this signed limited format.8vo 64pp [1946] 

” Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (11 June 1892 – 4 May 1953) was an English writer, known as a war poet of The First World War, and then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction ”