First edition. 32pp. Green publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 12mo. Slightly dusty text block edges, small mark on rear free endpaper else neat, clean and tight throughout. In its original red paper dust jacket, slightly shelf worn, a little bumped and rubbed at edges, sunned on spine and folds.
The Second Annual National Book Council Lecture, delivered by John Masefield in 1944, in which he dwells on the things that readers and booklovers aspire to, and the social conditions which aid or hinder them.
