Deirdre, an author's presentation copy of the first edition with the author's signature, inscription, and manuscript poem

by James Stephens

$450 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition · Signed

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. James Stephens was both a poet and novelist, and in this presentation copy both skills are on display. This author’s presentation copy of the first edition is inscribed in sixteen lines filling the front free endpaper recto: “Dear Major Whitall: | At the end of this book there | should be a small poem | thus: | After great heat, great frost |

• Binding: Hardcover

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