The Pipe Book by Alfred Dunhill - 1924
Foreword
Critics, disarm! And ye, Antiquarians, Archaeologists, Ethno-graphers, Ethnologists, et hoc genus omne, hold back in their leashes your quivering Fountain-pens! For this is no learned Treatise, but a simple Book, and written thus. Glancing idly one day along the stout row of his Hobby-horses, which were munching quietly in their stalls, the Author spied a Newcomer, stabled there seemingly by Chance the night before. And casting his leg across it, he rode his new Hobby afar into the countryside and into Lands unknown. There did he learn and see many Things, which afterwards he wrote and drew in this Book. To the many, learned and simple, who, as he rode, told the Author this and that about his Hobby that he knew not before, he hereby tenders his most grateful thanks. “Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed.” ALFRED DUNHILL 1924
This copy has some wear and damage that often come with books of great age, as it is now one 100 years old. It features a personal message and poem to its original recipient, and also a sticker inside the cover that reads: From the Library of the US Tobacco Museum”. This museum shuttered in 1986.
A&C Black, London
1924
First Edition
262 pages
Foreword
Critics, disarm! And ye, Antiquarians, Archaeologists, Ethno-graphers, Ethnologists, et hoc genus omne, hold back in their leashes your quivering Fountain-pens! For this is no learned Treatise, but a simple Book, and written thus. Glancing idly one day along the stout row of his Hobby-horses, which were munching quietly in their stalls, the Author spied a Newcomer, stabled there seemingly by Chance the night before. And casting his leg across it, he rode his new Hobby afar into the countryside and into Lands unknown. There did he learn and see many Things, which afterwards he wrote and drew in this Book. To the many, learned and simple, who, as he rode, told the Author this and that about his Hobby that he knew not before, he hereby tenders his most grateful thanks. “Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed.” ALFRED DUNHILL 1924
This copy has some wear and damage that often come with books of great age, as it is now one 100 years old. It features a personal message and poem to its original recipient, and also a sticker inside the cover that reads: From the Library of the US Tobacco Museum”. This museum shuttered in 1986.
A&C Black, London
1924
First Edition
262 pages
Foreword
Critics, disarm! And ye, Antiquarians, Archaeologists, Ethno-graphers, Ethnologists, et hoc genus omne, hold back in their leashes your quivering Fountain-pens! For this is no learned Treatise, but a simple Book, and written thus. Glancing idly one day along the stout row of his Hobby-horses, which were munching quietly in their stalls, the Author spied a Newcomer, stabled there seemingly by Chance the night before. And casting his leg across it, he rode his new Hobby afar into the countryside and into Lands unknown. There did he learn and see many Things, which afterwards he wrote and drew in this Book. To the many, learned and simple, who, as he rode, told the Author this and that about his Hobby that he knew not before, he hereby tenders his most grateful thanks. “Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed.” ALFRED DUNHILL 1924
This copy has some wear and damage that often come with books of great age, as it is now one 100 years old. It features a personal message and poem to its original recipient, and also a sticker inside the cover that reads: From the Library of the US Tobacco Museum”. This museum shuttered in 1986.
A&C Black, London
1924
First Edition
262 pages