Excavations: A Book of Advocacies

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 284pp, [2]. Topstain faded and slightly dusty, with a touch of subtle fading to spine panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket (orange variant) is well-preserved for this title, lightly edgeworn, and a little sunned at spine; a strong, Very Good+ example. A volume of essays dealing with esoteric figures in the literary and music world, among them Herman Melville, Ouida, Oscar Hammerstein, and Ronald Firbank.