HEDYLUS
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, Oxford, and Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1928. First Edition (American Binding). The Imagist poet's second published novel, a fantasy of sorts set in Hellenistic Greece, a generation after Alexander the Great. Boughn A10a.i. Item #5384
One of 520 copies (from a total edition of 775). Octavo (19.75cm); checked patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],185,[3]pp. Trivial wear to lower board edges, else Fine, chiefly unopened copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50), lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, gently sunned at spine and panels, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and some very shallow loss at base of spine; Very Good+.
Price: $250.00