Max Beerbohm — Seven Men

London, William Heinemann, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Beerbohm's Seven Men, five short stories by English caricaturist and writer Max Beerbohm, praised by Virginia Woolf as "a little masterpiece." In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. The first edition of this collection of five tales described by Virginia Woolf as 'a little masterpiece&apos.The book comprises five fictional "biographies" of eccentric fin-de-siècle characters from the 1890s, with Beerbohm positioning himself humorously as the seventh among them. One of the stories, "Enoch Soames," satirically portrays a struggling poet who makes a Faustian pact to discover how posterity will perceive him.With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart. The slightest rubbing and bumping to extremities. Very slight offsetting to endpapers. The odd very slight handling mark to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .