The Pentecost of Calamity [Inscribed]

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Octavo (17.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with paper title labels on spine and front cover; [6],7-148,[12]pp; illus. Inscribed by author on half-title, "Written in great sadness April + May 1915; delivered on June 9, 1915 at Commencement, Trinity College, Durham, N. C. / O. W. / by Owen Wister June 24, 1916". Frederick W. Skiff's pictorial bookplate by W. F. Hopson to front pastedown, and pencilled note to front endpaper. Spine-tanned, with light shelf-soil to covers and edges of textblock; Very Good. An anti-German work encouraging participation in WWI. JOHNSON & BLANCK p.547. FPAA p.393. [84899].