ARFON. London: W. and G. Foyle Ltd., [1930]. Octavo, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Davies. A single long story, a dark domestic drama with a Welsh setting. Davies, a Welshman, wrote about his native country with a mixture of affection and honesty that displeased many of his countrymen. He was a friend of John Gawsworth (i.e. T. I. Fytton Armstrong), who put stories by Davies into several of his weird anthologies in the 1930s, and featured him in Ten Contemporaries, his 1932 bibliography. NCBEL IV 558. A fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with some patchy age-darkening, especially on spine panel. (#128162).
Price: $35.00
"This, being the first edition of ARFON, is limited to four hundred copies / numbered one to four hundred, and twelve copies lettered 'A' to 'L' / ..." on limitation leaf.