The market in modern first editions' is a - special study
in which collectors are seldom proficient. They know far more about the prices of Elizabethan or Restoration books than they do about the Neo-Georgians. They will be interested, therefore, in the latest catalogue issued by Mr. Arthur Rogers of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who specializes in what may be called recent rarities. Here one finds, for instance, Conrad's Youth, the first issue of the first edition of 1002, priced at £6 10s., and the first edition (1901) of The House With the Green Shutters, by the brilliant and lamented George Douglas Brown at £2 2s. Hudson's Crystal Age (1887) with an auto- graph costs £610s., and a first edition of Mr. W. W. Jacobs's masterpiece, Many Cargoes, £1 10s. Mr. Rogers's list deserves study and inSpires many reflections. CONNOISSEUR,
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