EDWARD THOMAS. — Algernon Charles Swinburne. A Critical Study.

Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1st Edition, The first American edition, published in December 1912, a month after the English edition. Tall 8vo. 242pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with gold-stamped lettering, a double-border, and an interlinking decoration to the upper board. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece (from a painting by Rossetti). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The cloth very slightly discoloured at the backstrip, and a little marked at the rear board. A small nick to the cloth at the head of the spine. The half-title slightly spotted. Many leaves uncut at the fore edge. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, and a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front free endpaper. A super unopened copy of the uncommon American edition, issued as part of a series of critical studies of famous authors (Thomas' study of Walter Pater later appeared in the same series). No dust wrapper. See Eckert p.222., Very Good, No Jacket