B23 Conversations with George Moore

Table of Contents

B23-a First edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contributions by GM

B23-2a First American edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contributions by GM

B23-3a New Library edition

B23-a First edition

Title Page

Geraint Goodwin

CONVERSATIONS

With

GEORGE MOORE

LONDON

ERNEST BENN LIMITED

1929

Launch

Published 15 November 1929 at 10/6

Description

Height: 8 3/4 in; 8.75 in; 22.23 cm

Width: 5 5/8 in; 5.63 in; 14.29 cm

[A]8, B-K8, L10; pp 180;

• notice of limitation on p [2]:

This edition is limited to

110 numbered copies, signed by the author & Mr. Moore

of which a hundred are for sale

THIS IS COPY NO＿ [numbered in ink]

George Moore [signed in ink]

Geraint Goodwin [signed in ink]

• white endpapers;
• top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
• dark green head and tail bands with dark green ribbon marker;
• bound with green decorative paper-covered board sides
• green leather spine and corners, spine gilt stamped

CONVER-

SATIONS

WITH

GEORGE

MOORE

printer’s ornament

GERAINT

GOODWIN

BENN

There are two issues of the first edition:

1. Limited issue same as B23-a with a notice of limitation on p [2]
2. Regular issue,

1. with fore and bottom edges also trimmed making a slightly smaller format (8 7/16 in; 8.44 in; 21.43 cm x 5 3/8 in; 5.38 in; 13.65 cm),
2. notice of limitation omitted;
3. bound with decorative red paper-covered board sides
4. and dark red cloth spine, gilt stamped.

Contributions by GM

Letter to publisher Sir Ernest Beim, dated “26th July 1929” pp 11-[12]; “Obiter Dicta” pp 167-[180], not credited to GM, but in the “Preface” to the New Library Edition (B23-3a) Goodwin says, “One chapter, however, is his [GM’s] own work, and it is so transparently obvious that I will

not attempt to point it out.”

B23-2a First American edition

Title Page

Geraint Goodwin

CONVERSATIONS

with

GEORGE MOORE

NEW YORK

ALFRED A. KNOPF

1930

Launch

Published 28 March 1930

Description

Height: 8 1/8 in; 8.13 in; 20.64 cm

Width: 5 in; 12.7 cm

[1]8, (±[1]3), [2-12]8; pp [4], x, 3-180;

• white endpapers;
• top edges trimmed and stained brown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
• orange paper-covered board sides,
• black cloth spine with orange paper stamped in black

printer's ornaments

rule

Conversations

WITH

GEORGE

MOORE

printer’s ornament

Geraint

Goodwin

rule

printer’s ornaments

Contributions by GM

Text same as first edition (B23-a) and is set in close approximation of that printing. Same text also used for:

B23-3a New Library edition

The New Library, No. 5, Jonathan Cape, London, 1937,with a

PREFACE TO THE NEW

EDITION

by Geraint Goodwin and

A LETTER AS POSTSCRIPT

(to the “Preface”) by G. Bernard Shaw.