GREEN ARRAS BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN 1896 FIRST EDITION

[HOUSMAN, LAURENCE]. Green Arras. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1896.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (20 x 13.5 x 2 cm); pp. viii, 90, 16 ads. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with elaborate design in gilt to front cover and spine; page edges rough cut; decorative endpapers; half-title; double-page illustrated title-page by the author, with 5 another illustrations by him; decorative initials; publisher's catalogue at rear. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight bumping to spine ends. Covers and contents largely very clean. A touch of foxing to endpapers. Previous owner signature in pencil to fep.

Notes: Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator. Green Arras is one of several volumes of poetry that he wrote early in his career before turning to writing novels and plays; illustrated by Housman with frontispiece, illustrated title page and five plates, all printed in black and white. Ref: Kraus 33.