English Inns and Road-Houses, George Long, New York: M.S. Mill Co., Inc, 1937, HC, Very Good

Long, George. New York: M.S. Mill Co., Inc, 1937

English, Very Good hardcover, octavo, 8 ½” x 7”, 271 pp.

Very Good octavo, red cloth over boards, stamped gilt lettering and illustration to front and spine, full-color frontispiece, The Barley Mow, Long Wittenham, Berks, bookplate to front endpaper, dealerplate to back endpaper, envelope affixed to back pastedown containing newspaper clippings from San Francisco Chronicle, a pamphlet and black-and-white photographs from The Mermaid Inn, minimal edgewear to bottom edge, bumping to head and tail, minimal sunning to top edge, glue toning to pastedown, 3 markings in pencil to page 13, one word underlined in pencil to page 14, 2 words underlined in pencil, writing in pencil to margin “3-” “5-” to page 22. Good red dust jacket, full-color image of an Inn, The Barley Mow, Mong Wittenham, Berks. to front, black lettering to front and spine, chipping to top tips, ¾” x ¾” chip to head, small chip and small closed tear to head, ⅜” closed tear to top edge of back panel, sunning and soiling to spine, protected by Mylar sleeve. Text in English, Britain’s Strangest Inns, Highwaymen’s Inns, Murder Inns and Inns with a Story, replete with 234 black-and-white photographs taken by the author of different inns, roadhouses, and their signs. George Long takes us on a tour from the earliest English inns, to inns mentioned by Charles Dickens, to modern road-houses.