Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett (FIRST AMERICAN EDITION), 1910 🇬🇧✍️🎄 The California Gold Rush is its most famous design

is its most famous design

The artisans expertly adapted classic Chinese motifs—such as the eight Buddhist treasures represented by the coin/symbol cartouches—into a format easily recognizable by Western buyers

Dugan was a master of combining painstaking research with a narrative that was accessible to a broad readership

It is an ideal acquisition for an individual who seeks to understand the intellectual and religious currents that shaped Western thought

The ad is a time capsule of pre-Depression consumer confidence and technological enthusiasm

Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett (FIRST AMERICAN EDITION), 1910 🇬🇧✍️🎄 The California Gold Rush is its most famous designThis is a rare First American Edition, First Printing of Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett, the first book in his acclaimed trilogy. The volume is classified as a top shelf literary artifact, appealing to collectors of British Modernist Realist fiction and Edwardian gift culture. Its value is secured by its verifiable First Printing status in 1910 and a non replicable Provenance Premium: a dated handwritten gift inscription from Christmas 1910. 2. About