Priapus and the Pool

Cambridge: Dunster House, 1922. Very Good +. Cambridge: Dunster House, 1922. Limited edition of 425 copies. Octavo (22 cm); unpaginated. Boards half bound in black leather and blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine; edges gilt. Board margins, corners, and spine ends lightly worn and bumped with the leather flaking slightly at inner margins. Endsheets offset by leather at corners. Pages relatively clean. Uncommon but contemporary binding of this limited edition, which was originally bound in brown paper backed boards with a paper label at spine. A Very Good or better copy of Aiken's mid-career poetry collection.