AND LASTLY THE FIREWORKS: STORIES. London: Boriswood, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-234 [235: blank] [236: acknowledgments], original green cloth, spine panel stamped in red. First edition. The author's first collection of short fiction and first book of prose, preceded by two books of poetry. Nineteen stories of a distinctly "literary" sort, a few with slight fantastic elements including "The Ass Who Dreamt," an animal fable with Marxist overtones, and "I Died This Morning," a bitter and rather oblique post-mortem fantasy. Attractive typographical jacket design. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket (having small "Recommended by Book Guild" sticker on front panel) with light tanning and age-darkening especially on spine panel. (#119498).
Price: $75.00
"First Published September 1935" on copyright page.