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Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 X 5.5 inches. xxii + 260 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt. in unclipped dust wrapper, with chips and tears at head and tail of spine and stains on rear wrapper, which has a list of works. Rough cut edges. Minor wear to extremities and browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good copy, 1930 inscription on first free endpaper. Decorated by publisher's device on verso of half title. First edition of the collected poems of James Stephens (1882-1950), Irish nationalist, novelist and poet, which have an autobiographical and nature theme.