Details
HOUSMAN, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, trench, Trübner, & Co.Ltd, 1896.
12° (170 x 105mm). Half-title, endpapers slightly spotted and with various newspaper clippings pasted in, including a review of the Shropshire Lad from the Bookman June 1896. Original boards, printed paper spine label (Carter and Sparrow 'A' label), uncut (spine very lightly soiled). Cloth folder, blue morocco-backed slipcase, spine lettered in gilt.
FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies (and one of 350 copies of the English issue). Carter and Sparrow 2; Hayward 305.
12° (170 x 105mm). Half-title, endpapers slightly spotted and with various newspaper clippings pasted in, including a review of the Shropshire Lad from the Bookman June 1896. Original boards, printed paper spine label (Carter and Sparrow 'A' label), uncut (spine very lightly soiled). Cloth folder, blue morocco-backed slipcase, spine lettered in gilt.
FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies (and one of 350 copies of the English issue). Carter and Sparrow 2; Hayward 305.