Accession number
PML 196179
Creator
AE, 1867-1935.
Published
London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund, 2015.
Notes
Library's copy includes three pen and ink and watercolor drawings by the author on title page and first page of chapters 1 and 2, initialed AE.
A copy of the front dust jacket text, printed on brown proof paper, has been pasted to the verso of the front fly-leaf.
"Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited. Edinburgh"--Verso of title page.
A copy of the front dust jacket text, printed on brown proof paper, has been pasted to the verso of the front fly-leaf.
"Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited. Edinburgh"--Verso of title page.
Description
[8], 133 pages ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand-corrected by the author in three places and signed by him (using both real name and pseudonym) on the title page. An provenance note dated 1932 by Kathleen Ford on front fly-leaf: Given me by my brother Jim. While we were in Vienna Diarmid Russell lived with him in my house. I wanted AE's autograph. So Jim bought an American edition of this book & Diarmid sent it to his father. He sent back the English edition.
Provenance
Illuminated by the author for Kathleen Ford, 1932.
Binding
Blue cloth, lettered in gold on spine and upper board; issued in grey typographic wrapper. Housed in blue cloth slipcase.
Classification
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