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. ix, 594pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Orange cloth lettered in blue at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant blue top edge stain. The cloth a little faded at the backstrip, with a tiny bump to the tip of one corner, a little partial toning to the free endpapers, and a light scattering of spotting to the fore edge. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper (red with cream panels, printed in black, as called for by Thomas), price-clipped and lightly rubbed and creased with several small areas of careful internal repair. 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. Thomas A33., Very Good, Very Good