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The Trimmed Lamp
O. Henry [pseud William Sidney Porter]
This is one of 12 books by O. Henry (1862-1910), an American writer of short stories, published in the U.K. by Hodder & Stoughton. At least six of the books have a jacket designed by Blampied (see back panel of the jacket of the second copy shown below), but not all the titles have been seen with a jacket or have a signed illustration. These titles were reprinted many times, some into the 1940s still with the illustration designed by Blampied. Later books issued in Hodder & Stoughton's 'Yellow Jacket' series, such as the second copy, below, were called 'The O. Henry Library Edition'. This book is a collection of 25 short stories first published in 1907 in the USA by Doubleday, Page & Company.
First UK edition
Bibliography code: HOD-16.9
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Series:
Year: [1916]
Format: 16 mo
Pages: 256; later impressions pp 287
Binding: Brown cloth with H&S torch logo and initials with vertical red bars impressed on front; title, author and publisher in black on spine with impressed logo.
Size: 180 x 117 mm
Dust jacket: signed Blampied, upper right corner
Internal illustrations: none
Price: initially 1 shilling
Printing history: not stated
Printed by: later editions Butler & Tanner, Frome and London
Notes:
Image of dust jacket on first UK edition (click to enlarge)
Image of dust jacket on later UK edition (click to enlarge)
Image of dust jacket on later UK edition (click to enlarge)