Flower (Desmond), 1907-1997; Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941, editors

Sixteen parts (20 cm), gathered in four volumes (1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16), bound in brown buckram, original printed wrappers retained. 1 (December 1930-February 1931): (8), viii, 132 (12) pp., including advertisements. 2 (March 1931): (2), viii, 115 (13) pp., including advertisements. 3 (June 1931): xiv, 111 (11) pp., including advertisements. 4 (October 1931): viii, 123 (9) pp., including advertisements. 5 (January 1932): xvi, 117 (3) pp., including advertisements. 6 (April 1932): xvi, 89 (7) pp., including advertisements. 7 (July 1932): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 8 (October 1932): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 9 (January 1933): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 10 (April 1933): xvi, 95 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. 11 (July 1933): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 12 (October 1933): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 13 (January-March 1934): xvi, 95 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. 14 (April-June 1934): xii, 99 (1), including preliminary advertisements. 15 (July-September 1934): xvi, 95 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. 16 (October-December 1934): xvi, 93 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. - A final (17th) part, published privately by A.J.A. Symons in April-June 1935, after Cassell and Co. Ltd pulled out, is not present here. “Having no distribution organisation [Symons] did not sell very many, which is why this swan song is now so scarce” (Desmond Flower, “The Book Collector’s Quarterly, 1930-1933” in The Private Library, third series, volume 1, Spring 1978, pp.39-48). ¶ Some spotting on fore-edges, endpapers, and on wrappers; very good, unmarked set.