UNHAPPY FAR-OFF THINGS
London: Elkin Mathews, 1919. First U.K. Edition. Item #7455
First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); taupe paper-covered boards and cream cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in dark blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,83,[1]pp. Some of the usual offsetting to endpapers, with a small, faint spot to upper rear cover; a clean, very Near Fine copy. In the original dustjacket, priced 5/- net at mid-spine; gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with a few slivers of loss to spine ends and upper front flap fold, and the verso neatly and very skillfully backed with Japanese tissue; Very Good+. Collection of twelve short stories and a sonnet, capturing some of the horrors Dunsany watched the French experience during the Great War. Joshi & Schweitzer 17b.
Price: $150.00