THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MICHAEL FAIRLESS. With a Biographical Note by M. E. Dowson. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-14 [15-16] 17-356 [357-358: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece (photograph of the author), original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A posthumous collection of fiction, poetry and letters, some material published here for the first time. Includes the four fairy stories first published in THE GREY BRETHREN in 1905. Poem by George Santayana (1863-1959) dated Christmas 1939 neatly written in ink on the front free endpaper in another hand. Top edge stain faded, else a fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with light wear at edges and small from corners of upper spine end and three corner tips. Presents well overall. Scarce in jacket. (#158650).
Price: $100.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.