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BARING, Maurice. Orpheus in Mayfair and other Stories and Sketches. London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909. 8°. Half title (some very light spotting and staining). Original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “C. L. from M. B., [?]1910”. “C.L.” is identified in a pencil note on the front pastedown as Lady Constance Lytton. With 5 other books by the same author, namely Landmarks in Russian Literature (London, [1910]), His Majesty’s Embassy & Other Plays (London, [1923]), A Triangle. Passages from Three Notebooks (London, [1923], inscribed to Hilaire Belloc), Collected Poems (London, [1925]), Lost Lectures (London, 1932, inscribed to André Maurois), all FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES; with Arthur Binstead’s Pitcher in Paradise (London, [n.d.], Maurice Baring’s copy).

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BARING, Maurice. Orpheus in Mayfair and other Stories and Sketches. London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909. 8°. Half title (some very light spotting and staining). Original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “C. L. from M. B., [?]1910”. “C.L.” is identified in a pencil note on the front pastedown as Lady Constance Lytton. With 5 other books by the same author, namely Landmarks in Russian Literature (London, [1910]), His Majesty’s Embassy & Other Plays (London, [1923]), A Triangle. Passages from Three Notebooks (London, [1923], inscribed to Hilaire Belloc), Collected Poems (London, [1925]), Lost Lectures (London, 1932, inscribed to André Maurois), all FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES; with Arthur Binstead’s Pitcher in Paradise (London, [n.d.], Maurice Baring’s copy).
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