first edition
1917 · Boston
by Conrad Aiken
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1917. Very Good +. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 140pp+2ads. Missing jacket. Boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping. Fore-edge deckled. Boards, corners and spine ends gently bumped and rubbed with fading to spine, though titling still legible. Endsheets show erased pencil inscription and previous owner date and decoration to first pastedown. Minor rippling to bottom of prelims but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of Aiken's fourth collection of poetry. (Inventory #: 32986)