Leslie Shane Foreword (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Abridged Edition. Paperback copy, matching unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 256pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light rubbing to book edges, missing section to top front edge of dustjacket, clear magic tape to inside dustjacket. (21/2).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Printed at the Westminster Press by Gerard Meynell. 'The four early poems by Francis Thompson are here published in book form for the first time, by the permission of his Literary Executor.' There is no publication date on the title page and no reference to simultaneous publication with Burns & Oates, as is the case with the two subsequent editions (printings) of 1911 and 1912, indicating that this is the first printing of 1910. Neat contemporary signature on the front free endpaper and some toning to the endpapers. The blue-grey paper covered boards are somewhat soiled as is the buckram spine othewise this is a firm copy with the advert leaf at the rear for the works of the Hon. Mrs Lindsay, Viola Meynell, Padraic Colum and Shane Lesle. Uncommon in this first printing.…