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Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith : Original Promotional Brochure - "The Travellers' Library and the New Library"

Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith?, New York?

Original publisher's folding brochure printed in black ink on yellow paper. No date, circa 1929 (several titles of the New Library have their first date of publication in the United States as 1929). 3 1/2" x 6." One leaf of paper folded in thirds and printed on all panels. Leaflet is virtually pristine and intact except for a tiny fold on lower corner of one of the interior panels. A Fine copy. This is a promotional brochure advertising books in the Travellers' Library and New Library published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. The Travellers' Library is a compendium of classic books published in a small format allowing for ease of transport. The New Library follows the same format and features books making their publishing debut in the U.S. Very brief information notes the books' specifications and prices along with their titles and respective authors. Among the classic books are Horses and Men by Sherwood Anderson, Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Adolphe Danziger de Castro and Ambrose Bierce, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Fishmonger's Fiddle by A. E. Coppard, Orient Express by John Dos Passos, Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence, Wide Seas and Many Lands by Arthur Mason, Wayfaring by Alice Meynell, and The World's Back Doors by Max Murray. Some of the books in the New Library are Relativity: An Exposition Without Mathematics by James Rice, The Study of Birds: An Introduction to Ornithology by E. M. Nicholson, The League of Nations by H. Wilson Harris, The Inquisition by G. G. Coulton, Psychoanalysis by Ernest Jones, Architecture by Christian Barman, and The Indian States and Ruling Princes by Sidney Low.. Ephemera. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: No Binding

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