ONE OF NORAH'S EARLY DAYS. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Octavo, original gray cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in gold, top edge stained gray, other edges untrimmed, decorated endpapers. First edition. Limited to 285 copies of which this is one of 250 numbered copies (this being number 162) signed by Davies which were for sale. A single short story, a dark domestic drama with a London setting. Davies, a Welshman, generally 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. Text block foxed early and late, else a fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket with short tears at edges and some general age-darkening. (#128163).
Price: $35.00
"285 copies only of this first / edition of ONE OF / NORAH'S EARLY DAYS / by RHYS DAVIES have / been printed: 250 of these, / numbered, and signed by / the author, are for sale. / ... " on limitation page.