JOHN COWPER POWYS. — Jobber Skald. A novel.

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, The first English edition of 'Weymouth Sands', here re-titled and considerably bowdlerised from the US text of a year earlier. 8vo. 594pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's orange cloth, faded at the backstrip and somewhat mottled at the upper and lower boards, yet still a very crisp and bright copy. No dust wrapper. The English edition of Powys' previous novel, 'A Glastonbury Romance', resulted in a crippling libel suit, and John Lane was so determined to avoid a repeat of that turmoil that significant alterations were made to this text in order to strip it of all recognisable features. A full unedited version of Powys' intended text did not appear in the UK until 1963 (in his introduction to that edition, E. R. H. Harvey notes of this text "in the English version [of 1935] all the well-known topographical features of this historic town and even more historic hinterland disappeared without trace and with an uncompromising editorial thoroughness, which left the story not without fine qualities, but almost as free from any identity as a remote Norwegian fiord"). Thomas A33., Good, No Jacket