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The King of Alsander; Collected Prose; Collected Poems; Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad.. (4 volumes as a set) Hardcover - 1914

by Flecker, James Elroy

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover

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London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914. Book. Near Fine. Full Niger Morocco. Mixed Editions. pp. xii, 304, 1914 1st edition; viii, 269, 1920 1st edition; xxxi, 249, 1923 8th imp.; (v), 183, 1926 11th imp. A.e.g. Uniformly bound by Mudie in different coloured skins with Flecker's name on front boards surrounded by crossed garlands of leaves in gilt. Spines ruled at heads & tails with four hatched lines (all in gilt) on those edges & divided into six panels with title & author in gilt in the second. All other panels gilt stamped with either a flower or, in the novel's case, a crown motif in each. Board edges have a gilt pin point decorative roll. Turn-ins have single line fillets at outer edge & french fillets at their inner edge comprised of, working outwards; a single, pin point & scalloped lines with a flower at head & tail fore corners. The binder's signature stamp is in gilt at the tail of front paste-down end papers. All the books have an inscription dated January 1924 to Brita Lingen Gurney ( an (arrested) suffragette) a family friend. We have a card (not for sale here) from Mrs Flecker to her dated May 1924 discussing proof reading 'The Life of James Elroy Flecker: from Letters & Materials Provided by His Mother' & requesting Ms Gurney's help in locating " the following words of Roy's For thee, O Architect of Dream! " (actually used in this slightly altered form as an epigraph to that work). Flecker was known to his family as Roy. Spines & parts of front boards of both the Collected Poems & Hassan slightly sunned; notwithstanding which a beautifully bound set of association copies of the works of one of the most fascinating & singular of Georgian writers..
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