James Stephens — The Crock of Gold

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1943. Leather. A smartly bound illustrated edition of this comic novel from Irish writer James Stephens. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A comic novel being a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the "battle of the sexes". Written in six books that rotates around a philosopher and his quest to find the most beautiful woman in the world to deliver her from the gods Pan and Aengus Og. Written by James Stephens, an Irish novelist and poet. Illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie, an English artist and illustrator. Bound in half calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Thomas Mackenzie. Very Good .