Seven Men and Two Others

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in association with William Heinemann, 1954. First Penguin Edition. 12mo with green and white pictorial wraps; 185 pages; 18 cm Fine(-); edges a tad sunned; corners crisp and pages clean; binding tight. Appears unread. Paperback.

Beerbohm was a dramatic critic of the Saturdya Review in 1898, and lived in Italy most of his life,being "well-known as a writer, caricaturist, and wit, with a taste in dress which would have rivaled an eighteenth-century beau, he obtained his nickname from Bernard Shaw in the nineties, and it has stuck to him every since." --Contents: Enoch Soames. Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton. James Pethel. A.V. Laider. Felix Argallo and Walter Ledgett. 'Savonarola' Brown.