MY LADY NICOTINE BY J.M. BARRIE 1890 FIRST EDITION

[BARRIE, J. M.]. My Lady Nicotine. London: Hodder and Stoughton, MDCCCXC. [1890]. 

FIRST U.K. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5 x 13 x 3 cm); pp. 265, [6, publisher's advertisements]. English text. Bound in publisher's original covers; bevelled board edges; gilt titles to spine; t.e.g., other edges evenly cut; half-title. Printed by Unwin Brothers, the Gresham Press, Chilworth and London. Condition: NEAR FINE. An excellent tight and clean copy with a discrete previous owner name to front endpaper. Scarce thus.

Notes: A series of essays in which J. M. Barrie focuses on his days as a smoker, taking us through his life to his last pipe as he begins his non-smoking days. Barrie's essays involve companions, habits and ultimately quitting smoking, and are handled with humour.