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The Happy Warrior

A[rthur] S[tuart]-M[enteth] Hutchinson

A S-M Hutchinson (1879-1971) was a British novelist and editor of the illustrated newspaper The Daily Graphic. This novel was first published in 1912 by Alston Rivers.

This title and A Flutter in Kings were commissioned in a letter from Edwin Jack on 23rd April 1918:

Herewith we are sending you two volumes The Happy Warrior by A.S.M. Hutchinson and A Flutter in Kings by David Whitelaw. All that is wanted for these books is a circular design 6¾” in diameter. The surrounding framework is somewhat bold and printed in red. Kindly keep your drawings therefore as bold as possible so that the panel may stand out.

Edwin Jack acknowledged receipt of the designs on 29th May 1918 with which we are very much pleased.




First edition, thus

Bibliography code: NEL-18.3i

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons

Series: Nelson's Fiction Library MD 1

Year: [1918]

Format: 16mo

Pages: viii, 13-470, 6pp ads

Binding: Green cloth with TN logo in dark green between vertical lines; title, author, TN logo and publisher on spine

Size: 163 x 120 mm

Dust jacket signed: Blampied, at base of circle, which is pasted onto the jacket

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 2 shillings

Printing history: none stated

Printed by: Printed in Great Britain at the Press of the Publishers

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Notes: This is assumed to be the first edition because the rear panel lists books to be published in August & November 1918 and because the jacket is more costly to produce: the illustration is printed separately and pasted onto the jacket, which is made of heavy, rough paper. The accession date of the copy in the Bodleian Library is 3/3/1919.




Second impression

Bibliography code: NEL-18.3ii

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons

Series: Nelson's 2 shilling novels

Year: [1918]

Format: 16mo

Pages: viii, 13-470, 6pp ads

Binding: Red cloth with TN logo in dark green between vertical lines; title, author, TN logo and publisher on spine

Size: 162 x 110 mm

Dust jacket signed: Blampied, at base of circle

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 2 shillings

Printing history: none stated

Printed by: Printed in Great Britain at the Press of the Publishers

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Notes: This is a slightly smaller volume with a simple printed dust jacket. The illustration on the spine of the jacket is not by Blampied.