The Hooligan Nights
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The Hooligan Nights

Clarence Rook, 1899

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The Hooligan Nights
Clarence Rook, 1899
ROOK, Clarence (1862-1915) and William NICHOLSON, illustrator (1872-1949). The Hooligan Nights. London: Grant Richards, 1899.

First edition of Rook's rare novel of working-class life in 1890s Lambeth, with a frontispiece portrait by William Nicholson. Nicholson is perhaps best known as the illustrator of Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit (1922). He also wrote and illustrated The Pirate Twins (1929), the book credited by Maurice Sendak as inspiring Where the Wild Things Are. From the library of English author and poet Richard Le Gallienne, with his bookplate alongside Sendak's.

Octavo. Frontispiece portrait by William Nicholson, 12 pp. publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. Original buckram stamped in black and red (a little minor soiling and wear at extremities). Provenance: Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947; bookplate).