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Boston: Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell and Houghton & Mifflin, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very. Previous owner's inscription on first free end-paper/Fair. 8vo. Cloth-backed patterned boards. Edges untrimmed. Pp. (viii), 188. One of 775 copies.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston & New York, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US edition (first printing) of the author's second novel, printed at The Shakespeare Head Press in an edition of 775 copies, 225 of which were reserved for the UK market. 8vo. 185pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges rough-trimmed. Faint trace of partially erased former owner markings to the front free endpaper and a tiny indentation to the extreme lower margin of the first fifteen or so leaves. Binding just a little tender in places, but a lovely bright copy of a handsome production, housed in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat tanned, dust marked and chipped at extremities with some loss from the head and base of the spine panel and a few tiny additional fractions of loss to the corner tips..

Stratford-upon-Avon: printed by the Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, Oxford; and Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York,, 1928 [1929]. First edition, first impression, UK issue, in the orange binding and with no dust jacket as issued. This is the second title in H.D.'s Magna Graeca cycle. The US issue was released on 19 October 1928 in an edition of 520 copies; the UK issue followed shortly on 26 January 1929 in an edition of 775 copies. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed orange paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial title device stamped in black on front cover. Upper corners gently bumped, spot of wear to lower edge of front cover, edges and free endpapers faintly foxed: a near-fine copy. Boughn A10a.ii.

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. 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+.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, published simultaneously with British edition. Between the two editions a total printing of 775 copies]. Octavo. 185pp. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. The tips of corners are very lightly rubbed, else a fine, bright, partially unopened copy in slightly age-toned near fine dust jacket. The white printed jacket is slightly spine toned and has a few very short tears.

London: Basil Blackwell, and Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1928. Printed at Stratford-upon-Avon by the Shakespeare Head Press. First Edition, one of 775 copies printed. 185pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated boards and cloth. Very good copy in Houghton Mifflin dust jacket with small chips from head and foot. Very uncommon thus. Printed at Stratford-upon-Avon by the Shakespeare Head Press. First Edition, one of 775 copies printed. 185pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In Rare Jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, published simultaneously with British edition. Between the two editions a total printing of 775 copies]. Octavo. 185pp. Quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards. The tips of corners are very lightly rubbed, else a fine, bright, partially unopened copy in slightly soiled very good or better dust jacket.