Chesterton, G. K. The Unpresentable Appearance of Col. Crane (Three Yarns, Blue Ribbon Fiction); Three Yarns: Anthony, the Joker, by George Barr McCutcheon; A Great Man's Wife, by Booth Tarkington; The Unpresentable Appearance of Col. Crane, by G. K. Chesterton. Blue Ribbon Fiction, 1924.
Blue cloth, gilt titles, spine is dull, 4 1/2 x 7 inches, color frontispiece & several b/w illustrations, 125 clean pp., publisher's advert, tight. Good. Hardcover. [5239]
The Preface is signed The Chicago Tribune Newspaper Syndicate, April 1924. The Chesterton title first appeared in the Storyteller for February 1924.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), English journalist whose works include nearly all forms of written expression, including essays, novels, short stories, poems, plays, biography, and literary criticism. A Christian thinker, he sounded some of the earliest warnings against the tyranny of the modern state, and lamented the loss of wonder & beauty in modern life.