FLECKER, JAMES ELROY. The Golden Journey to Samarkand, London: Max Goschen, 1913, paper vellum-backed boards, t.e.g., partly unopened. LIMITED ISSUE, one of 50 deluxe copies (this no. 7) numbered and signed by the author on the certificate of issue pasted to inside front cover, fine; Another copy, blue cloth, uncut, a few slight bumps, original printed dust jacket (damaged), Ordinary Issue, ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by the Georgian poetry editor and anthologist Edward Marsh to Edmund Gosse on front free endpaper: "E.G. from Eddie, July 1913" (publication month). Laid in is an autograph letter signed ("Eddie") from Marsh to Gosse, [London], 6 January 1915, 3 1/3 pages, 8vo, discussing -- a week after Flecker's death in Davos -- his relationship with Flecker and commenting on the latter's poetry and personality: "...I am very much grieved -- I think he had real source of beauty inside him & that there was far more to come than he had given out. But I think what he left gives him a place among the English poets -- much of it is lovely & unique...It's very nice of you to think that I helped him. [Marsh promoted Flecker's works and dedicated the second volume of Georgian Poetry to his memory.] I did what I could but I'm afraid it didn't amount to much -- & in the nature of things it could only be a beginning..."; together 2 vols., 8vo, original bindings, cloth slipcases, FIRST EDITIONS. Danielson 106: "When the book was transferred to Mr. Martin Secker, the remaining copies of this special [the deluxe] edition were issued with a cancel title-page, bearing Mr. Secker's imprint, thus making the original issue considerably less than 50 copies"; Hayward 326. (3)

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FLECKER, JAMES ELROY. The Golden Journey to Samarkand, London: Max Goschen, 1913, paper vellum-backed boards, t.e.g., partly unopened. LIMITED ISSUE, one of 50 deluxe copies (this no. 7) numbered and signed by the author on the certificate of issue pasted to inside front cover, fine; Another copy, blue cloth, uncut, a few slight bumps, original printed dust jacket (damaged), Ordinary Issue, ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by the Georgian poetry editor and anthologist Edward Marsh to Edmund Gosse on front free endpaper: "E.G. from Eddie, July 1913" (publication month). Laid in is an autograph letter signed ("Eddie") from Marsh to Gosse, [London], 6 January 1915, 3 1/3 pages, 8vo, discussing -- a week after Flecker's death in Davos -- his relationship with Flecker and commenting on the latter's poetry and personality: "...I am very much grieved -- I think he had real source of beauty inside him & that there was far more to come than he had given out. But I think what he left gives him a place among the English poets -- much of it is lovely & unique...It's very nice of you to think that I helped him. [Marsh promoted Flecker's works and dedicated the second volume of Georgian Poetry to his memory.] I did what I could but I'm afraid it didn't amount to much -- & in the nature of things it could only be a beginning..."; together 2 vols., 8vo, original bindings, cloth slipcases, FIRST EDITIONS. Danielson 106: "When the book was transferred to Mr. Martin Secker, the remaining copies of this special [the deluxe] edition were issued with a cancel title-page, bearing Mr. Secker's imprint, thus making the original issue considerably less than 50 copies"; Hayward 326. (3)